by Marshall Bowden

In honor of the 50th birthday of the Grateful Dead’s classic album Workingman’s Dead, the band dropped an exotic release a week before the obligatory 50th-anniversary package: a streaming-only version of the album entitled Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share, featuring outtakes, false starts, and studio rehearsals.

That one time Donald Fagan and Walter Becker got a good jazz record made and released by a major record label’s jazz department

A selection of Santana songs that have meaning to me and have stuck with me through the years, appearing frequently on mix tapes and playlists.

by Marshall Bowden

In the spring of 1980, I was about to graduate from high school. A small group of friends decided we would spend the senior tradition of ditch day hanging out together at the beach. We’d see how things were there for a while, and then we’d head somewhere else if we wanted. 

Marshall Bowden

If Miles and Teo Macero had treated the studio as an instrument starting back in 1968, an entire generation of music makers was following in their footsteps by the mid-‘80s.

by Marshall Bowden

Whatever the surprise that greeted In A Silent Way, it was nothing compared to that which greeted the release of the double LP Bitches Brew in 1970. Those who carped about the album being a rock sellout were clearly not listening to what was going on at the time.