Billy Squier - Tale of the TapeIt takes a brave man to go it alone, in music or in life, and with Tale of the Tape, Boston born Billy Squier showed he had sufficient backbone (and material) to put his own name squarely behind his songs. Produced by prog professor Eddie Offord and featuring top names from the US East Coast rock fraternity (including guitarist Bruce Kulick, later to join Kiss), Tale was the record that established Squier as a singer songwriter guitarist of genuine

it's an inspiring and humbling look at a quest for a small piece of the American dream

'Agua' has a lazy-quirky latin-funk feel with breathy-stoned vocals floating in the background

Shostakovich always needed an overriding subject for his compositions to express the "central idea" of his music

melodic integrity and rhythmic focus

it was the band's last album with original guitarist Eric Bell and the first to feature the artwork of Jim Fitzpatrick

Right now I'm interested in making less self-indulgent music

His musical palette is rich and full of variety

This new jazz trio live-in-the-studio recording was stylishly filmed in 4K and recorded in high resolution audio and is available in Ultra HD Blu-ray with Dolby Atmos

Louisiana-based singer-songwriter

Dubbed For Those That Wish To Exist at Abbey Road

The problem is that his hometown

setting poetry and specifically haiku into the context of improvising music