Sounds From The Seventies

We take a look at the life and music of recently departed songwriting legend John Prine by reviewing his self titled 1971 debut album.

A very special episode this week as we remember the recently departed Kenny Rogers with a review of his band's the First Edition's two record concept album from 1972 "The Ballad of Calico". We talk about every track on this almost forgotten 70's artifact.

The last in our series about Country Divas in the 1970's features the 1976 album by country legend Tammy Wynette called "'Till I Can Make It On My Own" plus we talk about the various types of country music that was prevalent in the decade.

In this our second episode of a three part look at Country Diva's in the 1970's we discuss and review Loretta Lynn's 1973 album "Entertainer of the Year" and further discuss country music of the past and present.

The first album in our three part look at Country Divas of the 1970's is Dolly Parton's 1977 album "Here You Come Again". In addition to reviewing the album we take a look at Dolly's life and career up to the release of this album.

The last episode in our three part series about disco music in the 1970's centers around the 1977 album by the Queen of Disco Donna Summer "I Remember Yesterday" plus more thoughts about the decline and death of this once vibrant musical form.

In the second part of our three episode look at disco music in the 70's we look at and review the 1977 debut album by Euro disco band Santa Esmeralda and the album "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." We also continue our look at the rise and fall of disco music in general.

We start our three part look into disco music of the 1970's by reviewing the biggest selling disco album of all time and one of the biggest selling albums in music history the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack from 1977.

The last episode in our series about live double albums in the 70's focuses on Kiss and their 1975 breakthrough smash "Alive!" it's another live album we have picked with a great backstory.

We continue in this episode to shine a spotlight on the double live albums that came out in the 1970's and this week we take a look at the biggest one of them all Peter Frampton's 1976 breakthrough "Frampton Comes Alive" as we review the album and talk about how significant it really was to the culture at the time.

This is the first episode in our three part overview of double live albums in the 70's and this week we look at and review the 1976 album by Canadian power trio Rush "All the World's a Stage".

It's our first anniversary show and our 50th episode and the last in our four part look at albums released in the month of January in the 1970's and this week's album was the debut of Bruce Springsteen in January of 1973 with "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey". So because of all these things this is a very special episode for us.

In our continuing series of albums released in January in the 1970's we shine a spotlight on the 1972 album "Young Gifted and Black" by Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin plus our usual regular segments are presented.

In part two of our look at albums released in January in the 1970's we take a look at a not so happy release from 1971 we review the posthumous album "Pearl" from Janis Joplin. We look at the death and final music made by a true rock and roll legend.

The first in our series of albums that we will review that were released in the month of January in the 1970's. Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is a good starting point for this series because it was actually one of the first albums released in the decade of the '70s.

We present our first annual Christmas episode and what better way to celebrate Christmas than with The Carpenters 1978 album "Christmas Portrait" plus lots of other yuletide segments to get you in the spirit of the season.

This is episode two in our two part look at American Progressive Rock music in the 1970's and today we look at the 1975 self titled debut album by West Virginia band Crack The Sky and a look at their little known history that is still being written.

We start our two week look at American Progressive Rock in the 70s with a review of the 1977 album by Kansas "Point of No Return" and discuss the various types of Progressive Rock that comes from different countries.

This week we dive into the complicated life of Terry Melcher who was a noted rock producer, target of Charles Manson and his family and son of Doris Day. We examine Melcher's 1974 self titled debut album only one of two he ever released under his own name.

We have a much underrated and obscure Soul/R&B artist this episode. We review the 1973 album "Gag a Maggott" by Swamp Dogg and also take a look at his interesting career.

This week we take a look at the second and last album released in the lifetime of singer songwriter Judee Sill "Heart Food" released in 1973.  We also continue our discussion on the sad and troubled life of this great artist.

This episode we pay tribute to the late great frontman of The Cars' Ric Ocasek as we review their 1979 album "Candy O" and take a look at his life and career.

In our tribute to the recently departed singer Eddie Money we look back at his 1977 debut album and also talk about his whole career and what he meant to rock and roll in total.

In the last episode of our tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival we take a look at Santana and their 1971 album "III" plus we finish our Woodstock special segments.

This is our third episode in our four part series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. In this episode we take a look at famous Woodstock performer Arlo Guthrie and his 1976 album "Amigo" plus more Woodstock related segments.