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Author Archives: Brian Robbins
Quicksilver Messenger Service: Live At The Old Mill Tavern – March 29, 1970
On one hand, March of 1970 might be seen as the beginning of the end for Quicksilver Messenger Service. Keyboard genius Nicky Hopkins (who had joined the band the year before when co-founding guitarist Gary Duncan took a sabbatical) would be departing soon; so would guitarist/legend John Cipollina and David Freiberg, whose bass had provided […]
Tim Easton – Not Cool
During my first spin of Tim Easton’s new Not Cool album, Little Village came to mind. If you don’t know or remember Little Village, look ‘em up: John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner – the same lineup who laid down Hiatt’s 1987 masterpiece Bring The Family and reunited to release a self-titled […]
American Babies: A Lesson In Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart
I wrote this piece a few years back after Tigger and I witnessed Tom Hamilton and the American Babies doing what they do best. When they finished “Invite All Your Friends” at the end of the set, Tommy tapped his heart and tipped his hat towards Tigger and I – we being the two folks […]
The Royal Noise – Unbreakable
In some ways The Royal Noise’s sophomore effort Unbreakable picks up where their 2012 debut Keep On Moving left off: groove, groove, and more groove – with a side order of groove and a frothy mug of groove to wash it down with. Guitarist Johan Harvey and sax/keyboard wizard Mike LaBombard are masters of quickly […]
Bobby Whitlock: Domino, Solo, CoCo & Tellin’ The Truth
Bobby Whitlock and wife CoCo Carmel are riding a natural high – I can hear it in their voices when I call their Austin, TX home for our interview – and with good reason. This summer has seen two important releases added to their catalog; one a look back and the other a look ahead. […]
Bob Dylan – Another Self Portrait (1969–1971)
When Bob Dylan released the original Self Portrait in 1970, it was looked upon as meatloaf by a public that was expecting steak. No – worse: it was treated like a weird loaf made of should-have-been-discarded leftovers, half-heartedly slammed together. Well, even that’s not completely accurate. Actually, a lot of folks just thought it was […]
The Smoking Flowers – 2 Guns
Razz me all you want about this being an album review and the fact that the backstory shouldn’t have anything to do with the music and all that – I don’t care. The ring-tailed facts of the matter are as follows: I’m a sucker for a good love story; I’m an admirer of folks with […]
Ol’ Waylon Lets It Fly
April of 1978 it was, a Maine spring after a horrid Maine winter – the kind where the “Police Beat” column in the local paper is full of bizarre acts of gunplay and cannibalism and the funeral parlor gets overbooked with the weak who couldn’t make the long climb up what the older folks call […]
On The Road To Spearfish with Crazy Horse’s Billy Talbot
No doubt the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of Billy Talbot’s name is the legendary catalog of work he and his bandmates in Crazy Horse have created over the years with Neil Young. The studio collaborations between Young and the Horse began with 1969’s Everybody Knows This is Nowhere with the […]