Album review: Rory Gallagher, “Rory Gallagher – 50th Anniversary Edition

With 2021 only days away from concluding, the end nears for the 50th anniversary of one of rock music’s most prolific years. The months that made up 1971 saw the release of career-defining albums by The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band, Carole King, Aretha Franklin, Issac

In Performance: JD McPherson/ Joel Paterson

You could tell JD McPherson was in performance mode the instant he walked onstage Saturday night at The Burl. No sooner had he strapped on a guitar than he turned to a patron snapping his picture, flashed the pearly whites and gave a confident wink. From there, the Oklahoma rocker was, as they say, off

In Performance: Hot Tuna

After a half-century of Hot Tuna music, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady (whose friendship and musical alliance actually extends back over six decades) had pretty much defined their inspirations (the Rev. Gary Davis leading the pack), unmasked their sense of performance intuition and perfected a roots music repertoire to the point where it would sound

On TV: The Beatles, “Get Back”

A little late to the party, I am. But having finally ingested the three-part, nearly eight-hour account of a month in the recording life of The Beatles known as “Get Back,” I can sum up my take in three words. I want more. What “Get Back” does is very simple. But like any masterful artistic