It’s amazing what ten years off the grid did for Roger McGuinn creatively.   Back From Rio is by no means a perfect record, but it’s easily...

Roger McGuinn’s Back From Rio came out while I was living in the UK.   I got to hear him play at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, one of the be...

Chris Hillman had a great deal of success with the Desert Rose Band. But you wouldn't know this unless you listen to FM country statio...

I didn't have any awareness of Earle Mankey when I was a teenager, but I ran out and bought the one and only Tress album, Sleep Conven...

I’ve always had the impression that country music is Chris Hillman’s first love. Rock ‘n roll was just something he did because he’s an acc...

So dig this.   There’s always more to learn.   You never know it all.   I wanted to write about Gene Clark’s cameo appearance on the Long R...

Boy, the layers of tin foil you have to peel away in order to get to tonight’s song are really quite obtrusive.   There’s a very good tune ...

The hippie cum yuppie – or yuppified hippie – is an important demographic to keep in mind in considering the music of the 80s.   Much of wh...

One of PLU's iron-clad axions when it comes to pop music is that if Earle Mankey is involved, it's gonna be good. A few days ago, I...

City is the last album Roger McGuinn was involved in before more or less falling off the grid in the 80s. I don't have a lot of famili...

You’d think that with McGuinn, Clark and Hillman getting together again, this time without having to contend with Crosby’s ego and general ...

It is, of course, quite difficult to make a convincing case for CSN in the context of punk and New Wave, and yet their eponymous 1977 album...

in which Roger McGuinn lends further proof to Pop Life Unlimited’s Iron Law of Cover Versions, namely that they almost always suck. But th...

About three years passed between No Other and Two Sides to Every Story , released in January 1977. I'm getting a little tired of sa...