TEAR OFF YOUR OWN HEAD: It’s a Doll Revolution

The Bunch, ROCK ON (Fledg’ling)


Besides containing the ultimate Buddy Holly cover of all-time, Sandy Denny singing “Learning the Game” (as well as swanky readings of “That’ll Be The Day” and “Love’s Made a Fool of You”), this remastered collection of standards by various strands of the Fairport Convention from 1972 has long been among the great out-of-print cover albums. Here it is all gussied up with extra tracks like “Twenty Flight Rock,” “High School Confidential,” and “La Bamba.” There are no obvious tracks: Thompson solos on a revelation, Dion’s “My Girl the Month of May,” and Denny’s “Loco-Motion” is both funky and tart. All fans of The Band’s MOONDOG MATINEE should pony up; this is the British antecedent.



Whilst grocery shopping this afternoon, I blissed out to THE MEADOWLANDS by the Wrens (Absolutely Kosher).

OH, and there’s this.