First Album, First Song
If you’ve read my blog, you already know that I am a HUGE fan of Guns N’ Roses’ debut album Appetite for Destruction. So I won’t bore yo...
Tag: Springsteen
The Most Influential Albums of My Life
In 2018, a “challenge” went around Facebook that I was able to get behind and participate in – the first (and only) one ever. No Ice Bucket Ch...
Third Albums
I grew up finding bands and performers that I liked from the radio, and then in my teens, via MTV as well. Once I found a band I liked, I would work backwards t...
Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.
(Album ©1984, Columbia Records) The best selling album of 1985, and one of the best-selling albums of all time, BITUSA has sold more than 30 million c...
Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
(Album ©1975, Columbia Records) This is my list so it should come as no surprise that I’m including my favorite album of all time. This rec...
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
(Album ©1965, Columbia Records) This is (IMO) one of the two most important albums of all time (along with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), co...
Chris Whitley – Living With The Law
(Album ©1991, Columbia Records) Today, it’s Chris Whitley’s debut album Living With The Law. Released in 1991, I heard his first single, the ti...
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...