Below is a two-page foretaste of my chat with Tori Amos for Record Collector May 2026. And talking of Tori, today I had what must be the kind of sensation…
Motor-Cycle (1969), Lotti Golden’s first album, made when she was still in her teens, doesn’t sound like anything else. But only the canniest people caught on to it at the…
To my surprise, I suddenly felt like talking into a void. It can actually be better, sometimes, than talking to a person. With a person, you can end up getting…
If you saw an earlier post looking for information about 80s indie synth-pop band, Strange Images, the good news is that we found them in time for the June 2024…
I know I’m not alone in absolutely adoring the far-too-few albums by American singer/songwriter, Rita Jean Bodine, who cut such a memorable dash in the mid-1970s with her flamboyant sense…
One of this year’s most exciting reissues was the double-CD (and/or double-vinyl) presentation of Bobbie Gentry’s second album, The Delta Sweete (originally Capitol, 1968). When you see the name Andrew…
The late Cheryl Dilcher left behind four albums, all of which have something to recommend them. Dilcher was an American singer/songwriter (from Pennsylvania) whose first album, the rather prosaically titled…