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John Heidt
Steely Dan – Steely Dan, AJA
The Classic Albums video is a treat for Dan fans too. It features current interviews with Fagen and Becker and some great talk with players on this 1976 classic. You get to hear from Larry Carlton, Chuck Rainey, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie, Rick Marotta, Dean Parks and even original Dan member Denny Dias, who despite having…
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John Heidt
Steely Dan – Two Against Nature (video)
Two Against Nature features the current touring band doing new and old tunes in concert in a nice intimate setting that highlights the band’s sound perfectly. Fagen and Becker lead a group featuring the wonderful Jon Herington on guitar, Tom Barney on bass, Ricky Lawson on drums, some killer horn players and lots more. The…
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John Heidt
Buck Owens and The Buckaroos – Carnegie Hall Concert
It almost seems silly to have to tell anyone about the Carnegie Hall disc. Widely regarded as a document of one of the best country bands performing live at its peak, it’s guaranteed to thrill. The music is wonderful, the onstage patter is the height of corny (and I mean that in a good way)…
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John Heidt
Don Rich and The Buckeroos – The Don Rich Anthology
The Don Rich collection definitely reaches the heights of the live CD. It’s a 24-song retrospective featuring songs recorded when the late guitarist/fiddler was the instrumental hero of Buck Owens’ band. There’s lots of stuff here you’d expect. Killer instrumentals like “Buckaroo,” with its familiar jangly chordal work and chordal hammer-ons. There’s “Chaparral” with its…
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John Heidt
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Box Set
This four-CD box set illustrates again how the seed planted by Hendrix created a whole tree of rock guitar that still flourishes, although not at the level of creativity it did with Jimi. The music here is all alternate takes and previously unreleased stuff. And, it all re-establishes Jimi as the rock guitarist. There’s too…
