Robert Plant – The Past Dispatch

A&M Records Highlights: Fairport Convention

August 5, 2025November 15, 2023 by Bonnie Waters

Shooting from the hip here, so feel free to kindly counter this claim in comments, but I suspect there was no more prolific group on either side of the Atlantic in 1969 than Fairport Convention, and only Led Zeppelin achieved more impactful strides within those 12 months.

FC is the subject of this installment of #TuesdaysWithJerry, my journey through A&M Records’s past, in tribute to that label’s late co-founder Jerry Moss. I’ll get to why you’re as likely to find UK editions on Island Records as stateside pressings.

Sleepless Dissidents: A New Playlist Series

June 10, 2025July 12, 2020 by Bonnie Waters

Fellow Still-Sheltering Observers of the Ever-Raging Inferno Known as 2020: How ya been? Ah. Alive. Good. Me? Same.

Yes, you’re right: It has been a scalding hot minute since I last laid a playlist on you. I’d like to say this was my plan all along, and that the previous mondo mix — Emergency on Planet Earth, and hey, thanks, I too think it’s the best of the bunch so far — was designed to provide enough fodder to keep your boomboxes blasting through Independence Day.

LCKDWN20: Emergency on Planet Earth

June 10, 2025May 2, 2020 by Bonnie Waters

Future bleach guzzlers: here comes another mondo playlist. “Seriously,” I imagine some of you mocking, “ANOTHER 100 SONGS?!?” Serious as covid on asthma, yes. But I’ll keep this one’s introduction brief.