Neil Young
Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968
Forget Chinese Democracy. The real will-he-ever-release-it story of this decade (and the last...and the last...) is Neil Young's Archives Vol. 1, 1963-72. The (so far) massive 10-DVD set will include music, video, photos and interactive media, but the famously perfectionist Young continues to tease with release dates, only to snatch them back.
Shakey's latest postponement is reputedly due to tinkering with the Blu-Ray technolo
Texas supergroup the Flatlanders (although it still exists) may have been "more legend than a band" but the same could also be said for the Flying Burrito Brothers (above, with female friends). The pioneers of country-rock were a short-lived act that went though numerous lineup changes, but records like The Gilded Palace of Sin and Last of the Red Hot Burritos are consistently cited by alt-country/No Depression/Americana acolytes as sonic holy grails.
However, the band and its story have bee
Photo by Mark C. Austin​ACL was barely three hours old, and we already have a winner in the "New(ish) Band That Totally Sounds Like 1972" contest. It's our new Portland friends Blitzen Trapper, whose heavy folk-rock harmonies, atmospheric Led Zep slow blues (we half expected John Paul Jones to join them, but apparently he was busy with Sarah Watkins) and ELO electric piano was like a musical walking tour of the decade of shag carpeting and avocado countertops.
