Classic Album – Online Music Lessons

Best-Engineered Albums

Post author:admin
Post published:September 3, 2022
Post category:Classic Album Essential Listening World Music

Two of the best-engineered albums of the twentieth century, or of all time, are Exodus from Bob Marley (1977), and Avalon by Roxy Music (1982). Neither ever won awards in…

It’s A Beautiful Day

Post author:admin
Post published:September 2, 2022
Post category:'60s Classic Album Essential Listening

Here are five tracks from the San Francisco band, It's A Beautiful Day, featuring classically-trained violinist, David LaFlamme, and his wife Linda Baker LaFlamme. "LaFlamme" was a stage name he…

The Birth of Southern Rock

Post author:admin
Post published:August 30, 2022
Post category:'60s Classic Album Essential Listening

Southern rock didn't appear out of nowhere. It was preceded by the "swamp rock" sounds of Creedence Clearwater Revival. A "bayou" isn't exactly a "swamp," but it's close enough. When…

Frank Zappa’s Guitar Solos in New York 1976

Post author:admin
Post published:June 3, 2020
Post category:Classic Album

A while back, someone sent me a link to a compilation of 14 of Zappa's guitar solos recorded live in New York in 1976. https://youtu.be/foxHz_4GO6E