Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind
In the Village Voice’s year-end 1976 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll, Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind placed fourth. In second place was his sophomore album, Heat Treatment. Number one was Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, and in third…
Graham Parker Album Anniversary Sparks Another Songbook by Martin Belmont
Forty years ago, Graham Parker and the Rumour released their fourth studio album, Squeezing Out Sparks, to critical and popular acclaim. It topped the Village Voice’s 1979 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll. In Creem magazine’s Top Album Readers’ Poll for…
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…