JOHN LIAS HAS GOT MORE SOUL IN THE SECOND VOLUME OF SPINNING AROUND
Zulema Cusseaux’s 1978 album, Z-licious, was a product of its times, peppered as it was with “inevitable disco touches.” Van McCoy wrote three songs and sang on “I’m Not Dreaming,” a “dull ballad that became her last soul hit at…
THE REALITY BEHIND GRAHAM PARKER’S NEW ALBUM, CLOUD SYMBOLS
In notes about his recent album, Cloud Symbols, Graham Parker explains the disc was spurred by a song request from writer/director Judd Apatow. “I presumed that meant something previously recorded with a band but not released, so I said I…