Latest articles by Hugh Fielder
James LaBrie: Beautiful Shade Of Grey album review
James LaBrie delves into the complexities of human relationships on fifth solo album Beautiful Shade Of Grey
Pure Reason Revolution: Above Cirrus album review
No longer obscured by clouds, Pure Reason Revolution pull their music into sharp focus on Above Cirrus
Bill Bruford's stellar career celebrated on dizzying Making A Song & Dance box
A 40 year journey through prog, jazz and improv starring former Yes, King Crimson and Genesis drummer Bill Bruford
How love, chaos, ego and drug abuse fuelled an Eric Clapton classic
Was Duane Allman the catalyst for Derek and the Dominos' Layla, or did his “out of tune” playing spoil it? And was the piano outro nicked from another song?
Edgar Winter gets the greats in and pays impressive tribute to brother Johnny
Billy Gibbons, Joe Walsh, Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes, Derek Truck and more line up to pay tribute to Johnny Winter
The stars shine as respect is paid to a late great on Legacy: A Tribute To Leslie West
Stars including Robby Krieger, Steve Morse, Yngwie Malmsteen and Slash make the album the late Leslie West wanted to make
Kris Barras broadens his horizons on Death Valley Paradise, but not by much
Anthems? Big riffs? Belligerence and fist pumping? It's all here on the Kris Barras Band's Death Valley Paradise
Cream albums: the essential guide
Cream's albums showcased three mercurial talents who blew the stuffy, traditional British blues scene apart and exported the results back to America
The story behind the song: Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Blinded By The Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band: the tune that made Mann a better career out of Springsteen in the 70s than Springsteen himself
The Zealot Gene is light, bright, tight and recognisably Jethro Tull
Donald Trump. 9/11. The Bible. These are just some of the ingredients that make up The Zealot Gene, Jethro Tull's first album of new material since 2003
The story behind Dead End Street by The Kinks
A then-unusual gritty piece of social commentary, The Kinks' Dead End Street was a Top 10 hit despite the ‘offensive’ promo video being banned by the BBC
The 40 best albums of 1969, the year rock got real
1969 heralded the end of the 60s and the birth of real rock. Here we look at some of the gilt-edged albums from a pivotal year in rock history
Eric Clapton's Lockdown Sessions make Unplugged sound like an orgy of feedback
Eric Clapton swaps the Royal Albert Hall for an audience of one on Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions
Jethro Tull wish a happy 50th birthday to Benefit with another makeover
Jethro Tull’s third album Benefit was the bridge between their R&B beginnings and the style that would define them
Time Clocks hastens Joe Bonamassa's journey into his own blues future
Joe Bonamassa ponders the passing of time but doesn’t let getting older slow him down for a second
Emerson, Lake & Palmer celebrate the bombast with Out Of This World Live 1970-1997
Emerson, Lake & Palmer wave their prog willies with completist-friendly box set Out Of This World Live 1970-1997
Acid daze and revolution: Jefferson Airplane's long summer of love
They wowed Woodstock, got attacked at Altamont and blew minds at Monterey. The rest of the time they made era-defining records, fried their brains on acid, and shagged each other
Inglorious brighten the summer of freedom by covering music's great female singers
Heroine finds Inglorious paying tribute to Heart, Halestorm, Houston and more
What happened at Led Zeppelin's final UK shows at Knebworth
On August 5 and 11, 1979, Led Zeppelin played their final British shows at Knebworth. Classic Rock's Hugh Fielder was there
10 Folk Rock albums you should definitely own
There's much more to folk rock than its hey nonny nonny roots, as Jimmy Page will attest. These ten essential albums prove it
The kaleidoscopic story of Acid, the drug that inspired music's wildest experiments
The creators and advocates of LSD were an integral influence on the genre of psychedelia, but its history is bound up in espionage and government spooks as much as fun-lovin’ hippies
Joe Bonamassa plays Royal Tea Live and the cardboard cut-outs go wild
Out now: Joe Bonamassa's Royal Tea: Live From The Ryman proves Royal Tea was a good album, even without a real-life audience
Mammoth WVH's debut album is high-tech, energetic, relentless and thrilling
Out now: Wolfgang Van Halen strides out as a one-man band on first album Mammoth WVH
