The Music You Lose

According to an editable ledger I created a few years ago, the next album to be reviewed in this series was to be Jónsi’s Go…but when I visited my music shelf, the album was not there. I checked the computer I used in 2010, when I purchased the album, but saw that, though I had

Johnny Q Public — Welcome to Earth

7/10 (with “Body Be” and “Preacher’s Kid” included), but 8/10 (if they are skipped) After five years of no new Johnny Q Public output, my first thought during the first twenty seconds of their second and final release, Welcome to Earth, was *sigh* it’s good to hear Dan Fritz’s voice again. Well, I guess a

Johnny Q Public — Extra Ordinary

8/10 Rock music has not been the primary form of musical communication for quite some time. Even if one can pick up a rock station signal on their radio, that station is most likely playing the lowest common denominator inbred descendants of grunge music. Ironically, the only decent rock band that can even get a song on

Johnny Cash — American VI: Ain’t No Grave

9/10 From Uncut MagazineWhen June Carter Cash died unexpectedly on May 15, 2003, there were fears that Cash would quickly follow her. (Producer Rick) Rubin spoke to him at the hospital soon after June’s death. “He said he’d been in a tremendous amount of pain his whole life, and he’d never felt anything like this. He

Johnny Cash — American V: A Hundred Highways

9/10 When an album’s virtues are as simple as A Hundred Highways, it is silly to ramble on too long. Johnny Cash recorded most of these songs when he was only months from death. Those used to the voice of the young and virile Cash (I include myself in this group) may feel a bit

Johnny Cash — The Legend of Johnny Cash

7/10 Any time my parents’ wanted to get away for a week or two, they knew they could count on my grandparents to fill in. This meant a change in nightly entertainment. This meant I was in for a televised nightmare:The Grand Ole Opry.While I loved my grandparents, and I loved spending time with them,

It Ends Tomorrow

Johnny Cash — At Folsom Prison

10/10 The hardest reviews to write are reviews for albums people have been lauding for 45 years that you want to laud. People have already said what you want to say, and probably better. But hey, I got that dreaded first sentence out of the way, so I’ll just talk about why I think Johnny

So Now What Do You Think About John Williams?

Man, I’m not trying to get dirty, but that both took a lot out of me, and put a lot into me. Here’s a QA about my John Williams reviewing experience, and life, the universe, and several things. That was intense. Yes, yes it was.I wrote the intro for this series (the one with The

John Williams — Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

9/10 (A FINAL LUCID THOUGHT BEFORE YOU DIVE INTO THE INCOHERENT MADNESS BELOW: I GAVE THIS SOUNDTRACK A NINE BECAUSE, DESPITE SOME INCONSISTENCIES IN SEQUENCING, STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK) FEATURES SOME OF THE MOST MOVING WORK OF JOHN WILLIAMS’ ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER. THERE, I JUST SAVED YOU TEN