Author: Thomas Newman

Tom Waits isn’t an artist who’s ever courted mainstream success. Which is just as well, as he’d have been bitterly disappointed if he had. With the odd exception, his albums have rarely made the slightest…

Music lovers are at least remotely familiar with the name Ricky Nelson, despite the fact that he was killed in a plane crash in 1985, at only 45 years of age. Considering the fact that…

Work – we hate it, we need it, and if we didn’t have it, pop stars, country singers, and rockers would have one less thing to sing about than they do now. Over the years,…

There are a lot of genuinely superb rock bands that came from the late sixties. The 70s and 80s were full of up-and-coming bands enjoying great success and touring the world to bring rock to…

The Monkees were a manufactured pop band who came to fame on a sitcom, had most of their songs written for them, and who, for most of their career, had very limited control over their…

From 1969 until April 7, 2020, John Prine has entertained the audience with his musical talent in the genres of Americana, bluegrass, and country folk. The originality behind the mix of humor and various activism…

Phish is one of the more interesting rock bands to come along in some time. Formed in the early 1980s (1983 to be exact), the band is best known for its uncanny ability to combine…

This article on the top ten Rick Springfield songs looks at the best songs from this Australian-American musician who gained an interest in music after watching The Beatles perform in Melbourne. Apart from his musical…

After making a minor name for himself as a songwriter, Jackson Browne finally stepped into the limelight in 1972 with his sublime self-titled album. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, he continued to impress both…