Medium Rare Archives

Jackson Browne- Lives in the Balance

Jackson Browne "Lives in the Balance" in depth and In the Studio with Redbeard.

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

Southside Johnny Lyon visited Q102/ Dallas radio show to discuss his tenth (!) album "Better Days", as well as the Jukes' 1976 debut "This Time It's for Real" containing the Bruce Springsteen chestnut "The Fever"; 1977's I Don't Want to Go Home; the essential 4.5 star Hearts of Stone in 1978; The Jukes in '79 with "Living in the Real World"; the instant classic "It's Been a Long Time" featuring Johnny with producer/ songwriter/ running buddies Steven Van Zandt and Bruce Springsteen...

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Van Halen- Fair Warning- Eddie & Alex Van Halen

Van Halen's April 1981 album "Fair Warning" is easily the band's most overlooked effort in the original David Lee Roth era; the most Eddie Van Halen-dominated album until the mega-hit "1984".

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Guns’N’Roses- Slash

Guns'n'Roses Appetite for Destruction is now the top-selling debut album in history at over 18 million copies in just the U.S.

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Sammy Hagar- Best, Round 2

After years of struggle as the undercard rock palooka who could take a punch and never go down, in 1982 Sammy Hagar answered the bell and came out swinging, scoring a technical knockout with his first mainstream hit "Your Love Is Driving Me…

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Kansas- Wayward Songs & Dust Busters- Kerry Livgren, Steve Walsh, Phil Ehart, Rich Williams, Robbie Steinhardt

The Topeka-based progressive rock band Kansas sold about twelve million albums just off of back-to-back blockbusters Left Overture in 1976 and Point of Know Return barely eighteen months later, but there is a lot of quality before "Carry…

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Blues Brothers John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd- June 1979

I would wager that imitators of the Blues Brothers, blues harp-blowing Elwood Blues and his singing hand-standing brother Joliet Jake, are second in number only to Elvis impersonators ever since Briefcase Full of Blues topped the US sales…

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Ann Wilson- Hope and Glory

On Ann Wilson's birthday in 2007, here was a present from her : a highly personal solo album of carefully chosen covers, Hope and Glory, at a time when US wars were raging in two separate countries with no end in sight. And the "A" guest list of performers with whom Ann duets include no less than Elton John, k.d.lang, Alison Krauss, Wynonna Judd, even sister from Heart, Nancy Wilson.