Austin met Bakersfield on this meeting of consummate country stars in the early ’80s, produced with Chips Moman, designed to look backward and forward at the same time.
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Young became mostly restrained and melancholy for this 1978 release, drawing on folk and country idioms. It includes recordings made over several years.
Their fourth album made Kansas one of the top U.S. mainstream rock bands and helped pave the way for the style now known as “arena rock.”
The LP was the band’s long-awaited breakthrough, the Heartbreakers now matching the caliber of their front man’s writing with their focused musicianship
Still led by founders Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent, the British Invasion band performed both their early classics and newer material.
Throughout these live and studio performances, you’ll have trouble deciding which is more impressive: Mitchell’s music or vocals.
The album restored the band’s platinum stature with a more expansive style verging on prog rock while retaining retro accents
Their unexpected union was a landmark combining an array of distinctive voices into something no individual could create alone.
Left for dead by their record label, and with musicians using the group as a revolving door, Pure Prairie League nearly packed it in. Then they got lucky.
His only #1 LP, and an Album of the Year Grammy winner, this 1975 release offered definitive proof that he was not going back to the past.