I wrote music reviews for Fi magazine—no longer being published—in the late 1990s, for a column called "Finesounds," focusing on great-sounding recordings of worthy music.
I wrote music reviews for Fi
magazine—no longer being published—in the
late 1990s, for a column called "Finesounds,"
focusing on great-sounding recordings of worthy music.
Click on the links below to read selected articles from Fi magazine:
The Pop (and Some Jazz) List of Great-Sounding Recordings, Part 1
The Pop (and Some Jazz) List of Great-Sounding Recordings, Part 2
Voodoo Child, Profound Return: The Experience Hendrix Re-Issues
Too Hip for a Major Label: Babatunde Olatunji, Too Hip for the Room
Keep Pickin'! Chet Atkins, Les Paul
Oblique Strategies: Pop Music with a (Mobius Strip) Twist: They Might Be Giants, Lee Feldman
When
Greatness Comes Knocking Around: James Lee Stanley,
Tubby Hayes, Rebecca Pidgeon, The Cars, The Eagles,
Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy D. Lane
You'll Never Mistake Me for John Travolta! Willie
Nelson, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Saturday Night
Fever Soundtrack
Fragmentation
Balm: Gentle Giant, Eye to Eye (Ronnie Earl,
Pinetop Perkins, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, Willie
"Big Eyes" Smith, Bruce Katz)
Future Sounds, Past
Sounds: Astonishing Sounds: Future Sounds of London,
Stevie Wonder
Finesounds Best of
1998 Pop: James Lee Stanley, Tom Freund, Blue Oyster
Cult, Little Hatch, plus Tom Petty
The Agony and the XTC: XTC, Spooky Ruben, Joe Henry, Lucinda Williams
Hear the Quality!: Bireli Lagrene, Fallen Angels, Tom Petty
High on Hi-Fi: Roy Orbison, George Faber, Louis Armstrong, Music for a New World (various artists)