Tag: The Man Who Sold the World

"Lightning Frightening"

David Bowie — Rare Blues Track + Silver Spring Connection

“At the start of 1969, [David Bowie] wrote ‘Space Oddity,’ a song that punctured the global mission for the Apollo moon mission,” Peter Doggett observed in his Introduction to 2011’s The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s — an analysis of Bowie’s songwriting, chronologically speaking, throughout

January 19, 2016 2 Comments

"Seven Deadly Finns"

“Seven Deadly Finns”: Roots Rock Rediscovery

Back in the days of vinyl (i.e., “before music was free”), there seemed to be endless time to pore over the contents of a record album. However, truth is we invested the time, since budgetary restraints (and lack of YouTube) made it incumbent upon the listener to really make the

February 3, 2015 1 Comment