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23 years ago today, John Michael Montgomery released his second studio album, an effort which sent him not only to the top of Billboard’s Country Albums chart but to the top of the Billboard 200 as well. Produced by Scott...

52 years ago today, Cilla Black released her debut studio album album, kicking off a career which would carry on for multiple decades. Produced by George Martin, CILLA had an instant mark of quality, as did anything in the 1960s...

45 years ago today, Aretha Franklin released her twentieth studio album, which is absolutely staggering when you consider the fact that she’d only released her first studio album 11 years earlier. Produced variously by the Atlantic trifecta of Tom Dowd...

Two weeks ago, we kicked off our annual Start Your Ear Off Right reissue campaign, and if this is the first you’re hearing of it, then allow us to steer you toward what we wrote about it at the start...

47 years ago this month, Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band released an environmentally friendly song. No, it didn’t solve the world’s pollution problems, but at least it was funky. Produced by Wright, who also wrote the...

31 years ago today, the man who gave us “Hit the Road, Jack” and “What’d I Say” was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Trying to nail Ray Charles down to a single musical genre is a...

Has it really already been 50 years since The Grateful Dead released their debut album? My, my, those half-centuries certainly do fly by… In commemoration of this momentous anniversary, we’re kicking off an equally-momentous, utterly epic album reissue series of...

29 years ago today, The Drifters were officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. When it comes to the Hall of Fame inducting a group, there are certain rules that must be followed in terms of which...

30 years ago today, Hüsker Dü released their sixth studio album, a double-LP affair which served as both their sophomore effort for Warner Brothers as well as the final studio album that the band would ever record. Given the evolution...