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Lookback: Eric Clapton’s Essential Solo Albums – An Uneven Career With Some Astounding Highs
ByKenneth Corsini October 13, 2025June 18, 2026
Ever since he released his Unplugged – Enhanced Edition earlier this year, I’ve been thinking about Eric Clapton and his solo career. I’ve written about Clapton before and how it seemed like for a while there, after he got sober, that Eric was striving to “make amends” with some of his past collaborators. He did a reunion…
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Playlist: Songs About… Rivers
ByKenneth Corsini October 6, 2025June 18, 2026
*Photo of the Chicago River taken by your intrepid blogger (I’m not a nature guy, this is as close as I get to water/nature) “One can learn much from a river.” “He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment…
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Review: Robert Plant Returns With Folky Album ‘Saving Grace’ With Suzi Dian – Another Rootsy Gem
ByKenneth Corsini September 29, 2025June 18, 2026
Robert Plant has returned with his first solo album since 2017’s Carry Fire, this time with a new backing band Saving Grace (whose name also doubles as the album title), a band he’s been touring/playing with since 2019. Of course, in the interim we saw him reconnect with Alison Krauss for 2021’s Raise The Roof. I’ve…
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Review: Lenny Kravitz’s Revisits His 1995 LP With ‘Circus (Deluxe)’ – Time To Reassess The Much Maligned Album?
ByKenneth Corsini September 25, 2025June 18, 2026
Last week while I was locked in a deep Grateful Dead Blues For Allah listening session/trance, Lenny Kravitz released an enhanced version of his 1995 album entitled Circus (Deluxe). It’s a two disc (CD) set featuring the original album on disc 1, and a few outtakes and live tracks on disc 2. The thing I remember most about when…
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Review: A Non-Dead Head Dives Into The Grateful Dead’s ‘Blues For Allah – 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)’ – A Complex Gem
ByKenneth Corsini September 22, 2025June 18, 2026
Around a week and a half ago, the Grateful Dead released Blues For Allah – 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. I’m on record as saying I’m not a Dead Head, although I’ve had friends and known people who were into the Dead since high school. Since I don’t have that Dead Head background I like to take…
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Review: ‘Buckingham Nicks’ Finally Sees Re-Release After Decades Out of Print – I Got My Copy In ’87
ByKenneth Corsini September 19, 2025June 18, 2026
*Picture of my original copy of Buckingham Nicks, obtained in 1987, taken by your intrepid blogger A few weeks or perhaps a few months ago I started seeing strange posts on Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and even Mick Fleetwood’s social media with the track “Frozen Love” playing in the background. There were many who were…
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Review: Just For Fun, We Look At Foreigner’s New ‘4 (Expanded Edition)’ – Classic Or Guilty Pleasure?
ByKenneth Corsini September 17, 2025June 18, 2026
Foreigner, whose heyday was really the late 70s and early 80s, has gone back to revisit their 1981 blockbuster and have released 4 (Expanded Edition). The new package features the artwork above in place of the more iconic “4” they took from the old movie lead in/countdown. The original cover was designed by Hipgnosis but was…
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Review: Led Zeppelin Release ‘Live – EP’ To Celebrate 50 Years Of ‘Physical Graffiti’
ByKenneth Corsini September 12, 2025June 18, 2026
“I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been.” Led Zeppelin, “Kashmir” Rock n roll legends Led Zeppelin are celebrating the 50th anniversary of their landmark 1975, double album Physical Graffiti by releasing the creatively titled Live EP. Of course we here at B&V have already posted in celebration of…
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Review: Former Talking Heads Frontman David Byrne Returns With ‘Who Is The Sky’
ByKenneth Corsini September 8, 2025June 18, 2026
On the heels of the Talking Heads releasing their new, updated More Songs About Buildings And Food – Super Deluxe, ex-Heads frontman David Byrne has released his new solo album, Who Is The Sky. You’d think the folks down at the record company would want to spread these things out more… although McCartney released his…
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Playlist: Songs About…. Running/Running Away (Not Necessarily An Exercise Playlist)
ByKenneth Corsini September 4, 2025June 18, 2026
Image of Jim Fixx’s iconic 1977 book ‘Running,’ taken from the internet and probably copyrighted Apparently school just started around here…I don’t have any kids in school but there are signs. Every year about this time my Playlist: Songs About School starts spiking in views/listens. And suddenly, all through my neighborhood and the surrounding environs…
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