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31 items by Bud Scoppa

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  Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert | ALBUM REVIEW

  In a form in which individual instrumental feats are often self-indulgent and superfluous, Eric Clapton's music remains an anomaly. His greatest guitar playing has been as passionate as Otis Redding's best singing and as articulate as Bob...

  October 25, 1973 12:00 AM ET
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  Mott | ALBUM REVIEW

  What an array of weapons this band has: awesome firepower, an ever-increasing depth of expression, timely themes and an artistic way of mixing these qualities on record. In terms of my own bias, Mott the Hoople has...

  September 13, 1973 12:00 AM ET
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  Goats Head Soup | ALBUM REVIEW

  History has proven it unwise to jump to conclusions about Rolling Stones albums. At first Sticky Fingers seemed merely a statement of doper hipness on which the Stones (in Greil Marcus' elegant phrase) "rattled drugs as...

  August 31, 1973 12:00 AM ET
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  GP | ALBUM REVIEW

  Gram Parsons is an artist with a vision as unique and personal as those of Jagger-Richard, Ray Davies, or any of the other celebrated figures. Parsons may not have gone to the gate as often as the...

  March 1, 1973 12:00 AM ET
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  Grievous Angel | ALBUM REVIEW

  Gram Parsons is an artist with a vision as unique and personal as those of Jagger-Richard, Ray Davies, or any of the other celebrated figures. Parsons may not have gone to the gate as often as the...

  March 1, 1973 12:00 AM ET
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  No. 1 Record/Radio City | ALBUM REVIEW

  #1 Record In the late Sixties, a Memphis teenager named Alex Chilton won moderate fame and fortune as the lead singer for a sometimes inspired, sometimes insipid recording unit known as the Box Tops. The group was a...

  February 1, 1973 12:00 AM ET
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  All The Young Dudes | ALBUM REVIEW

  Taking what does not belong to you is a crucial part of the process of creating rock & roll: Exploiting proven riffs, phrases and hooks, then adding a few twists of your own — that's how it...

  December 7, 1972 12:00 AM ET
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  Stories We Could Tell | ALBUM REVIEW

  The Everly Brothers brought harmony to rock and roll. They also brought sensitivity, the result of their having been weaned on old-time country music. They were the end of one line and beginning of another. They were...

  July 6, 1972 12:00 AM ET
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  The Eagles | ALBUM REVIEW

  The Eagles' "Take It Easy," is simply the best sounding rock single to come out so far this year. The first time through, you could tell it had everything: danceable rhythm, catchy, winding melody, intelligent, affirmative lyrics,...

  June 22, 1972 12:00 AM ET
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  Bare Trees | ALBUM REVIEW

  Fleetwood Mac's last two records, Kiln House and Future Games, have between them provided me with perhaps a hundred hours of enjoyment. And that's the ultimate test of a record's worth. Personally, I was never interested in...

  June 8, 1972 12:00 AM ET
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  Jackson Browne | ALBUM REVIEW

  It's not often that a single album is sufficient to place a new performer among the first rank of recording artists. Jackson Browne's long-awaited debut album chimes in its author with the resounding authority of an Astral...

  March 2, 1972 12:00 AM ET