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Shelved: Yoko Ono

by Tom Maxwell January 21, 2021October 18, 2022

On Yoko Ono’s 1974 album “A Story,” and stepping out from behind the ever-present shadow of John Lennon.

Posted inNonfiction

Shelved: Pink Floyd’s Household Objects

by Tom Maxwell September 3, 2020November 4, 2022

On Syd Barrett’s time with Pink Floyd and making an album with household objects and found sounds.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Shelved: Jeff Buckley’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk

by Tom Maxwell February 19, 2020December 16, 2022

The posthumous Buckley industry began with this problematic album, proof that the people who control a musician’s estate don’t always have his music in mind.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

The Enduring Myth of a Lost Live Iggy and the Stooges Album

by Aaron Gilbreath April 29, 2019October 19, 2022

In 1973, Columbia Records professionally recorded the infamous band for a planned concert record. Columbia never released it. Maybe they never recorded it.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized

Shelved: Sonny Rollins Live at Carnegie Hall

by Tom Maxwell February 12, 2019October 19, 2022

The saxophone colossus recorded two concerts at the same venue fifty years apart. Only one recording emerged from the vault.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Fruitland

by Steven Kurutz January 17, 2019October 19, 2022

Privately made records enjoy a cult following among collectors, but few are as legendary as Donnie and Joe Emerson’s 1979 LP Dreamin’ Wild.

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