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Review: Pretenders, ‘Kick ‘Em Where It Hurts’ (Live) – Still Making A Glorious Racket
ByKenneth Corsini June 24, 2025
The Pretenders just released a new live album (a double live album on vinyl!) entitled Kick Em Where It Hurts. The album artwork, with pink lettering running down the left side and green letters along the bottom, recalls Elvis Presley’s debut album later also mimicked by the Clash on London Calling. That all seems pretty…
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Review: Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, ‘Talkin’ To The Trees’ – An Uneven Yet Solid Album
ByKenneth Corsini June 19, 2025June 20, 2025
Neil Young has recently released a brand new studio album, Talkin’ To The Trees. On this outing, he’s subbed out Crazy Horse and has brought in a “new-ish” band, the Chrome Hearts. The Chrome Hearts are basically Promise of the Real (who have been Neil’s on and off backup band for a while): Micah Nelson…
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Review: Van Morrison, ‘Remembering Now’ – A Late Career Gem, After A Rough Few Years
ByKenneth Corsini June 16, 2025July 18, 2025
On Van Morrison’s fabulous new album, Remembering Now, he has a song entitled, “Back To Writing Love Songs,” and can I be the first to say, “Thank Heaven!” I have to admit to you, I’d given up on Van. He’s always been a cranky curmudgeon but the pandemic sent him off the deep end… not…
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Playlist: In Honor Of “The Summer Of Love,” We Go Outside Our Wheelhouse, Songs From…1967
ByKenneth Corsini June 11, 2025June 12, 2025
“Turn on, tune in, drop out” – Timothy Leary, 1967 I don’t why, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the 60s. I was but a babe in diapers and missed out on that whole counterculture scene but I like to think I’d have been a hippy, much to my father’s chagrin. I guess…
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New Song: Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs Return With Wistful “Heart Of The Heartland”
ByKenneth Corsini June 6, 2025June 6, 2025
I was surprised to see on social media that Mike Campbell and his intrepid Dirty Knobs (guitarist Jason Sinay, bassist Lance Morrison and former Heartbreaker Steve Ferrone on drums) were releasing a new album this year. I was surprised but certainly delighted. I’ve been a big fan of this band since their debut album, 2020’s…
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Beyond “Double Live” Albums, Let’s Look At Single-LP Live Albums – Our Favorites
ByKenneth Corsini June 1, 2025June 1, 2025
*Crappy picture of live LPs from Townshend, Hendrix, Elton, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Faces/Rod, and the Blues Brothers by your intrepid blogger who moonlights as a very bad photographer While my listening of late has been very 1985-centric what with both Dire Straits (Brothers In Arms) and INXS (Listen Like Thieves) releasing deluxe editions of…
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Lookback: The Doors ’70 – ’71, The Return To Blues Rock On ‘Morrison Hotel’ & ‘L.A. Woman’ – The End Of The Jim Morrison Era
ByKenneth Corsini May 27, 2025August 11, 2025
“I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer…” – The Doors, “Roadhouse Blues” (Photo above likely subject to copyright) I saw Jim Morrison, former lead singer of the Doors, was in the news the other day. Well, if I’m being a little more accurate, his tombstone was in the news. Morrison is…
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Review (Lookback 2.0): Dire Straits, ‘Brothers In Arms (40th Anniversary Ed)’ – Complete With Full ’85 Concert Recording
ByKenneth Corsini May 21, 2025
Dire Straits recently released Brothers In Arms (40th Anniversary Edition) to celebrate the big anniversary of their landmark 1985 album. If you’ve been reading B&V for any amount of time, I know what you’re thinking… “Didn’t you already post about this album?” Yes, I did. As the calendar turned to 2025 I did a playlist…
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Review: INXS, ‘Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)’
ByKenneth Corsini May 15, 2025
Just last Friday, INXS released Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition). We’ve done a couple of lookbacks to 1985, foremost of which was our Playlist: Rock Songs From 1985. It was a very synth heavy/drum machine kind of year. I chose to also look back to Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms (perhaps the album…
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Review: Eric Clapton, Releases ‘Unplugged – Enhanced Version’ – Looking Back At His Iconic Live/Acoustic LP
ByKenneth Corsini May 9, 2025
Eric Clapton, former member of the Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Faith, has re-released his iconic Unplugged album (originally released in 1992) in what he’s calling an ‘Enhanced Version.’ As far as I can tell, the only thing “enhanced” about this album is a promise to release some “never before heard” interviews recorded…
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