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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 you more by gushing about “Welcome to the Jungle.” But in writing about that album three other times already, I got into a conversation with my buddy Eric…
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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 Challenges for me, but the 10 Most Influential Albums in 10 Days challenge was appealing. My college friend Leigh forwarded me the challenge, which had been almost universally…
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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 copies and spawned a record-tying 7 top-10 singles. And this album cover image is as iconic as the music within. The image is a photo taken by Annie Leibovitz that…
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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 record was a phenomenon when it was released in 1975, because an artist who few people knew about, who was about to be dropped by his label, turned in an all-time great…
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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), containing songs that brought a depth to rock-n-roll. (Read Greil Marcus’ Like A Rolling Stone to learn more about the impact of this album.) The cover image was a photo taken…
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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 title track, while I was a DJ on WIZN in Vermont. We were playing it in medium rotation, so it was getting heard a bit. I grabbed a copy of the CD…
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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 journey given my deep love of his music. And this step is due to my family’s influence. Some of you may know that my mom’s sister is a pretty…
