The horn-based ’60s band was coming off a chart-topping album when it agreed to tour Eastern Europe. Everything went wrong, except the music.
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For one of his final recordings, Cash teamed with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. “I was with a bunch of people and we had fun,” he said.
The former lovers and longtime superstars finally made an album together and tour as a pair. Our reviewer says it was worth the wait.
Chicago’s speedy ascent was fueled by a landmark debut that made an immediate splash with critics and listeners, but it was more than a hit record.
If you need a reminder of just how adventurous rock artists were back in ’67, this three-disc set will deliver.
They came out of Downey, California, mashing together blues, country, rockabilly, jazz and good ol’ rock & roll into something all their own.
The lion’s share of these recordings sound relatively enervated compared with the frequently anthemic well-known versions.
Timed to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the band’s arrival, the new set is a scaled-back affair sporting 36 tracks, many of them obscure.
“We don’t fit into anyone else’s category, so we’re going to have to create our own,” said David Byrne about the band’s second album.
Both adventurous and accessible, the album is one of the most commercially successful in the history of rock.