Classic Rock Review

Fifth Dimension by The Byrds

1966 Albums, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, American Artists, California Artists, David Crosby, The Byrds

Buy Fifth Dimension The Byrd‘s third album, released in the summer of 1966, Fifth Dimension saw a change both in style and personnel for the folk-rock group. Earlier in the year Gene Clark, […]

Year of the Cat by Al Stewart

1976 Albums, Al Stewart, Alan Parsons, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists

Buy Year of the Cat It took Al Stewart more than a decade of grind and seven studio albums before it finally achieve a measure of mainstream success with the release of Year […]

Into the Great Wide Open by
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

1991 Albums, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, American Artists, Florida Artists, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Buy Into the Great Wide Open Tom Petty continued his impressive commercial success as a new decade unfolded with Into the Great Wide Open, the eighth studio album by Petty and The Heartbreakers. […]

Somewhere in England
by George Harrison

1981 Albums, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, George Harrison

Buy Somewhere in England Somewhere in England was an arduous and frustrating album to produce for George Harrison, taking more than a year to release. The album was critically panned as the material […]

The Runaways

1976 Albums, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, American Artists, California Artists, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, The Runaways

Buy The Runaways The Southern California all-female teenage rock group The Runaways had a short and tumultuous career during the mid 1970s, a career which commenced with their 1976 self-title debut album. In […]

The Royal Scam by Steely Dan

1976 Albums, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, American Artists, New York Artists, Steely Dan

Buy The Royal Scam We’ve all heard of the genre called “outlaw country”. But with Steely Dan‘s 1976 fifth studio album, The Royal Scam, the group put forth a collection of songs that […]

Emerson, Lake and Powell

1986 Albums, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, Cozy Powell, Greg Lake, Keith Emerson

Buy Emerson, Lake and Powell Emerson, Lake & Powell was a quasi-supergroup which existed in the mid-1980s and released a singular, self-titled studio album. The trio was two-thirds of the 1970s group Emerson, […]

Tapestry by Carole King

1971 Albums, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, American Artists, Carole King, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, New York Artists

Buy Tapestry After spending most of the 1960s writing hits for other artists, Carole King started a solo career at the dawn of the 1970s. Her 1971 second studio album, Tapestry, became her […]

Arc of a Diver by Steve Winwood

1980 Albums, Album Reviews by Karyn Albano, British Artists, Steve Winwood

Buy Arc of a Diver Arc of a Diver is a true “solo” record by Steve Winwood  as he played every instrument and recorded and produced the album in his private studio. The […]

Horses by Patti Smith

1975 Albums, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, American Artists, John Cale, Midwest Artists, Patti Smith

Buy Horses Horses is the 1975 debut album by Patti Smith, an album which has long become considered a breakthrough masterpiece of minimalist originality and poetic improvisation. Smith and her band had no […]