PolyGram Special Markets' 1994 budget compilation A Rock 'N' Roll Christmas is a nice little
find. Elton John's relentlessly joyful rocker Step Into Christmas is the standout because this album is the easiest to find and most inexpensive source. Old-fashioned ...
In 1957, Modern Records put out a rock & roll sampler LP of sorts on
its Crown subsidiary, with the catalog number 5001. Confusingly, in the early '60s, it reissued the LP with a different catalog number, 5001-J, and different ...
Though there are still some traces of the confessionals that underpinned Beautiful Loser through Stranger
in Town, Against the Wind finds Bob Seger turning toward craft. Perhaps he had to, since Against the Wind arrived after three blockbuster albums and ...
2006's Best of the J. Geils Band is the first single-disc collection to feature songs
from the group's tenures at Atlantic and EMI. It would be nice to say it is a definitive look at their career, but perhaps due ...
At the dawn of punk, the U.K. experienced a rock & roll revival. Rockabilly cats
and greasers roamed the earth, Hank Mizell's Jungle Rock became an unexpected hit and, soon enough, cult figures who were barely heard in the U.K. ...
Although Bob Seger has been out of the spotlight for a number of years, this
retrospective shows that the Motor City rocker hasn't lost any of his abundant heartland appeal. The 16-song set picks up where Seger's first hits collection ...
Released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Ricky Nelson's tragic death, Capitol/EMI's 2005 compilation
Greatest Hits is not the first collection to bear that title, nor is it the first to span from his first big hit (1957's Be ...
Live Bullet introduced Bob Seger to a wide audience, revealing a rocker of unbridled passion
and a songwriter of considerable talent. Prior to its release, Seger had been toiling away, releasing seven albums and touring constantly ever since his debut ...