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Old Glory vs New Glory

Posted by Lance Davis - September 29, 2018 - American Flag, Beastie Boys, Dolly Parton, Drive-By Truckers, Eminem, Funkadelic, Gil Scott-Heron, Glossary, Ice Cube, Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Cash, Lee Bains III, Maria McKee, MC5, Merle Haggard, Minutemen, Neil Young, Sly And The Family Stone, The Glands

Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers, 1969[click to embiggen] In doing early research for my next Nicky Hopkins post, I landed on the Jefferson Airplane’s 1969 album, Volunteers, because Hopkins plays on five tracks. Unfortunately, his prodigious talents couldn’t pull the record out of a nose dive. I get that the group has many adherents who appreciate their […]

Rescued From Obscurity: The Glands

Posted by Lance Davis - March 17, 2012 - Glands, The Glands

I love this picture of The Glands because it perfectly sums up my relationship toward their music. They put out two albums of strange, beautiful, heavy, melodic, grooving (in a good way) rockpop music and then disappeared. Oh, they’ll reunite every now and then in their native Athens, GA, but for the rest of […]