Email Author Dave McElfresh

1999 Stories by Dave McElfresh

• Sonic Stew

  published December 9, 1999

  Listening to the radio, you'd think that there's only enough progressive jazz, blues, R&B, folk and world music being released to merit an... More >>

• Rock of Pages

  published October 21, 1999

  Just as there's a lot of dreadful music worth avoiding, there's also no shortage of truly rotten books about music to waste your time. As a... More >>

• Trout Mask Original

  published July 1, 1999

  With the release of the Captain Beefheart boxed set Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-1982), rock's ultimate eccentric is finally honored as a figure who... More >>

• Gotta Serve Somebody

  published June 24, 1999

  If you're a Dylan freak, the center of the universe is, of all places, Grand Junction, Colorado. Mick and Laurie McCuistion reside there,... More >>

• Recordings

  published April 29, 1999

  Fountains of Wayne Utopia Parkway (Atlantic Records) At year's end, when critics and other know-it-alls compile their best-of... More >>

• Organ Donor

  published April 1, 1999

  It took somewhere near 20 phone calls to catch Joey DeFrancesco between tours. His perpetually full schedule is an impressive state of affairs for... More >>