August 2025 – By Jeff Burger
4 posts published by Jeff Burger during August 2025| By Jeff Burger
Reviews: a box set collects Marianne Faithfull's 1960s work, plus Robin Batteau and an anthology of early rock and rockabilly.| By Jeff Burger
Reviews: a box set collects covers of Bob Dylan songs, plus anthologies from Ray Peterson and Memphis Minnie, an America reissue, and a Clifton Chenier tribute.| By Jeff Burger
Reviews: Box sets collects work of England’s Pale Fountains and Kinks, plus the Feelies, and Kissing Other Ppl.| By Jeff Burger
A box set explores the making of Nick Drake's Five Leaves Left and Eric Andersen delivers a live version of his classic Blue River LP.| By Jeff Burger
Reviews: Counting Crows delivers its first full-length studio album in more than a decade, plus Freedy Johnston and Mike Henderson.| By Jeff Burger
Reviews: anthologies of Buck Owens concerts and rockabilly acts, plus Tami Neilson, Maria Muldaur, and Jeffrey Foskett.| By Jeff Burger
Reviews: The Wandering Hearts cover CSNY’s Deja vu and Iron Horse covers Creedence Clearwater, plus CDs from Willie Nile and the Black Watch, and an expanded version of Christopher Cross̵…| By Jeff Burger
Reviews of an excellent, previously unheard and unseen Frank Zappa concert, plus CDs from Janis Ian, Christian Parker, Eli “Paperboy” Reed, and Big Love Car Wash| By Jeff Burger
Music reviews: Badfinger’s lost album, “Head First,” plus live sets from Al Stewart, Translator, and Oregon.| By Jeff Burger
Lucinda Williams covers Christmas songs and the Rolling Stones; John Sebastian revisits the Spoonful songbook; and four more new releases.| By Jeff Burger
Fifty years after rock’s most famous festival, a giant box set delivers just about everything but the mud, rain, and traffic jams.| By Jeff Burger
Reviews: an anthology of music from California’s Laurel Canyon community, plus Robert Hunter, Roy Brown, and Jay Gordon.| By Jeff Burger
An expanded edition of the Grateful Dead’s Wake of the Flood includes a 1973 concert. Plus, CDs from Benny Goodman, Mac Curtis, Adam Palma, Be, and Ed Sweeney.| By Jeff Burger
Reissued material focuses on early rockers: Darlene Love, Dion, Clyde McPhatter, and Charlie Feathers.| By Jeff Burger
Watch the video or read the transcript of my recent talk with the Lovin’ Spoonful leader/cofounder, who discusses his early years, his classic hits, the Woodstock festival, his new album, and…| By Jeff Burger
You may or may not be familiar with J.D. Souther, whose biggest claims to fame as a performer were 1979’s “You’re Only Lonely” and membership in the ill-fated Souther-Hillman-Furay Band. You surely…| By Jeff Burger
