Lovin’ Wreck: Blindfold Test #7

The most exciting part of these columns, immediately after I listen to all 25 songs (okay usually I’ll make it 26 just in case I mess up and one of my writeups is completely flat and incoherent), is going back and checking the app queue to find out what music I was just taking notes…

Cross-Overed and Remainless

New York Rocker, one of the great — at least up there with Creem and the Village Voice music section and OP — music periodicals of the early ’80s, must have switched from folded newsprint to bound 11″x15″ not-quite-glossy-but-still-more-magaziney sometime circa late 1981 or early 1982, because I’ve still got a few intact issues conforming…

Joe Ely review, 1981

At times unintentionally (I think) hilarious review for my college weekly, thanks primarily to my entertaining ignorance about country music involving assumptions that many city slickers no doubt share — and which certainly have at least some small basis in truth, even four decades later. My logic contradicts itself, partly resting on my deciding I…