Bruce Springsteen – The River
I’m tracing my musical evolution with you chronologically, so you might find it surprising that Bruce was not the first but the fourth step in that journe...
Category: Most Influential Albums
Cheap Trick – At Budokan!
I first heard this record in 1979, the only summer I ever went to sleep-away camp (Lincoln Farm, in Roscoe, NY – home of the marginally famous Roscoe Dine...
Kiss – Rock & Roll Over
This record is the first rock and roll record I ever owned. It came out in late 1976, and I heard it soon after when a second-grade classmate (TJ Rapaport, wher...