THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF NOVEMBER 10
CAPTURED LIGHT Great Lake Swimmers (Spotify) *****+
This is the 9th album for this Ontario-based roots band, and it’s a stunner. Captured Light has a comforting, breezy quality...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF NOVEMBER 3
DRESSED TO KILL: 50TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION Kiss (Universal Music) *****
Kiss’s third album, the one before Alive! Came and changed everything, was released in the spring of...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF OCTOBER 27
GHOSTS Jeff Shew & The Late Night Crew (independent) ****+
Jeff Shew’s new album can be hard to pin down to one genre, and I really like that. Ghosts is...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF OCTOBER 14
WONDERLUST Pavlov’s Dog (Ruf) ***+
Never heard of this band before but they’ve been around since the 70’s; in fact last year they released the career-spanning...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF OCTOBER 6
DEEP MUD Mud Morganfield (Nola Blue) *****
Talk about a chip off the old block. Deep Mud is the son of Muddy Waters’ first album on Nola Blue,...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 30
WAR PIGS Judas Priest & Ozzy Osbourne (Sony) ****
A bit of a surprise this, but a welcome one. On September 26th Sony Music released this cover...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 22
TEQUILA & BULLETS Jay Hooks (Joplin Street Music) *****+
Every once in a while an album comes along to remind you what rock & roll should feel like. Tequila...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 16
LIVE EP Led Zeppelin (Atlantic Records) ****+
Physical Graffiti is the album that many, including the band themselves, point to as the essence of Zep. I’ve bought...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 9
I’M JUST JOHNNIE Johnnie Johnson (Missouri Morning Records) *****+
“I done what I like, I done what I should/ I’m just Johnnie and Johnnie...
THE ROCK DOCTORS HOT WAX ALBUM REVIEWS – WEEK OF AUGUST 27
LEGACY: THE CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL YEARS John Fogerty (Concord) *****
This was decades in the making. The title means what you think it does as Fogerty,...