Copper

A stunning Harman Kardon Citation II B power amplifier. Designed by Stu Hageman and introduced in 1959, it’s considered by many to be one of the greatest Golden Age amplifiers.... Read more...

The Man with No Name? Michael Baugh Interview, Part Two

In Part One (Issue 145) we talked to multifaceted guitar playing genius Michael Baugh about what inspired him to play guitar, and how he got into film composing. Here, Mike tells us... Read more...

Bob Dylan – Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16/1980-1985

This issue, I’m focusing on a single release, Bob Dylan’s Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16/1980-1985, a new five-disc box that covers Dylan’s return to form following his... Read more...

Burt Bacharach, Part One – The Early Years

Burt Bacharach is one of those composers who I’ve listened to nearly my entire life. From the age of six or seven, my mother – the adventurous listener in the... Read more...

Alternate Realities – Janácek: Piano Works

Janácek: Piano WorksLars Vogt, pianoOndine ODE1382-2 With his tart rhythms and uneasy tonality, Leoš Janáček, a late Romantic Czech composer and early innovator in folk musicology, circles his own little... Read more...

Phil Keaggy – A Lifetime of Making Joyful Noises, Part Two

Part One of this series (Issue 145) covered Phil Keaggy’s early music with hard rock power trio Glass Harp, his experiments with prog rock, jazz fusion, classical and Elizabethan acoustic guitar,... Read more...

Martin Theophilus of The Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording, Part Three

Martin Theophilus is the Executive Director of the Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording (MOMSR), a private collection of recording machines, tapes and other materials, along with a companion website. The site contains... Read more...

Global Groovin’ with Analog Africa

“Greetings, funky friends.” So began a recent email announcing the latest release from one of my favorite music labels, Analog Africa. Launched in 2007, AA has so far produced 44 ear-opening reissues... Read more...

Back To My Reel-to-Reel Roots, Part One

Returning after a long absence, Contributing Editor Ken Kessler – who started with Copper Issue 2 – provides us with a cautionary study of the open-reel tape revival, an addiction that has... Read more...

Al Staehely: Spirit and the Letter of the Law

In rock and roll you always take the wins where you find them. Al Staehely is the only person who has both played Carnegie Hall and provided legal services for... Read more...

Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

For a variety of reasons, we left in the late evening of July 27th, 1973. The trip to Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway was about 265 miles. It was going... Read more...

Roon Done Right: A User Guide

Many people think of Roon as a media player or media server, but it’s neither! Good thing, too, as it would be crazy to spend $120/year renting software to play music you... Read more...

Clandestine Amigo Releases Its Second Album, Things Worth Remembering

Things Worth Remembering is the second album by pop/rock band Clandestine Amigo. Recorded in pure high-resolution Direct Stream Digital (DSD) and mastered using Octave Records’ DSDDirect Mastering process, the album finds... Read more...

Pilgrimage to Sturgis, Part Four

The first installments of this series appeared in Issues 143, 144 and 145. It was well after midnight by the time I staggered back from downtown Spearfish. I had a hard time locating my... Read more...

Jean-Philippe Rameau: A New Take on French Opera

If Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764) had not embarked on a new aspect of his musical career in middle age, the world would be deprived of some very fine operas.... Read more...

Isaac Hayes: Soul Chef

Isaac Hayes had an inauspicious start. Born in 1942 in rural Tennessee, he was raised on a farm by his sharecropping grandparents. He would go on to become one of... Read more...

The Write Thing

“Writers write.” – Dave Kindred.“Nuff said.” – Stan Lee. Ken Kessler is back! He started with Copper Issue 2 and returns after a long absence with the beginning of a series on... Read more...

Wizened Tree

Near The Valley of Rocks in Lynton, England is a coastal stretch of land that is truly dramatic, with a landscape that has endured intense weathering. Here it is rugged... Read more...

Sow, How's It Sound?

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