Music Reviews by John the Rock Doctor – August 25th, 2020
WHOOSH! Deep Purple (Edel/ Ear Music) ****
Deep Purple’s new album is their 3rd in a row with producer Bob Ezrin (Alice Cooper, Kiss, Pink Floyd),...
Music Reviews by John the Rock Doctor – August 8th, 2020
DEEP DARK DEMON Mark May (Gulf Coast Records) ****
If you want rafter shakin’, soul quakin’, baby makin’ blues, Mark May is your guy. Deep...
Music Reviews by John The Rock Doctor – July 28,2020
GRIT YOUR TEETH Vega (Frontiers) ***
It’s the sixth album for these melodic rockers out of the UK. Grit Your Teeth sports many genre touchstones...
Music Reviews by John The Rock Doctor July 9th, 2020
ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS Bob Dylan (Columbia) ****
I haven’t always had the easiest relationship with Dylan’s music, finding some songs and albums inspiring and...
Music Reviews by John The Rock Doctor – June 24th, 2020
THE REMEDY Too Slim & The Taildraggers (Vizztone/Underworld Records) *****
As much of a fan I am of their last album, 2018’s High Desert Heat...
Music Reviews by the Rock Doctor – June 13th, 2020
SOUL SERVICE Tony Holiday (VizzTone) *** ½
Tony Holiday has done it again. He follows up last year’s Porch Sessions with Soul Service, a...
Music Reviews by The Rock Doctor – May 29, 2020
BRAVE Dani Wilde (single) (VizzTone) ****
A new digital single from this British blues Award winner, scarcely a month after her last one, Howling At...
Music Reviews by John the Rock Doctor – May 13th, 2020
HERMITAGE Ron Sexsmith (Warner Music Canada) *** ½
A new album here from one of Elton John’s favourite songwriters. Moving from Toronto to Stratford,...
Music Reviews by the Rock Doctor – May 6th, 2020
FIREWIND Firewind (AFM) ****
In a 20 year career this is the band’s 9th studio album, and Firewind introduces new vocalist Herbie Langhan to the...
JOHN THE ROCK DOCTOR’S TOP 25 ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
In these days of social isolation and staying home I spend a lot of time online, mainly on Facebook- I’m not that adventurous. A...