McCartney wrote “Junior’s Farm” as an homage to Nashville’s “Curly” Putman.

Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run MPL/Hear/Concord Rating: Whether this recent re-mastering of Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run CD (along with bonus tracks, DVD, and “enhanced packaging”) is simply a meretricious attempt to return Sir Paul’s bank balance to its pre-Heather Mills glory is anybody’s guess. What really matters, though, [...]

Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band On The Run is one of the most celebrated albums of their career. On November 2, Band On The Run will be re-released (in three separate versions) via Concord Music Group.The album, which went to #1 upon release in 1973 and would become the band’s highest-selling LP, has been remastered [...]

(All of these songs appear on our new free sampler, The Country Way Digital Vol. 1) Cass McCombs – “Dreams-Come-True-Girl” (featuring Karen Black) An outlier on an otherwise country album, this is the least so, favoring the crooning and ‘50s-era oldies in the bass and percussion. Karen Black’s background singing is most memorable in the [...]

WILL KIMBROUGH Wings (DAPHNE RECORDS) Rating: Guitarist/singer/songwriter/producer Will Kimbrough has always been one of the most talented sidemen in the biz. But with “Wings,” his fifth album, he’s finally fulfilled his potential to become a force on his own terms, in his own words. These songs, borne of the maturity a husband and father learns [...]