Looks Like We Made It
An inconceivable first for So Much Great Music: We come in praise of Barry Manilow. How could it have come to this?... Read More
The Best of Flute
The first choice should be a given, but here are the next top bands and best songs that feature the flute.... Read More
Tale of the Tape
Spotify is incredible, but making an actual cassette mixtape used to really mean something.... Read More
Future Soul in the very near future
I had developed concerns about the future direction of my favorite band when two superheroes came to the rescue.... Read More
Unlikely Drinking Partners
Pull up a barstool to hear the surprising connection between Country icon George Jones and singer-songwriter superstar James Taylor... Read More
Dave Edmunds “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)”
A small thing, a cassette tape, gifted between friends, and from The Boss to Dave Edmunds. But, from small things, big things one day come.... Read More
Art and Artists
When do you separate the art from the artist? Michael Jackson provides a telling example.... Read More
Tom Petty “Down South”
It's sometimes easy to forget Tom Petty was a southerner. But a significant part of his iconic American identity came from down south.... Read More
Boston “Don’t Look Back” (really)
A follow-up album that sounded just like its masterful predecessor, somehow too good to be considered as good.... Read More
The Highs of Lowe
Best of? Greatest hits? Power pop stud Nick Lowe has never had the proper title for a collection of his best songs. Until now.... Read More