Muddy Waters’ ‘At Newport 1960’ Turns 65 | Album Anniversary

November 10, 2025 Patrick Corcoran

Listening to ‘At Newport 1960,’ it seems almost unthinkable that anyone would be anything less than blown away by the sound of the blues exploding so impressively.

Muddy Waters’ ‘Folk Singer’ Turns 60 | Album Anniversary

April 1, 2024 Steven Ovadia

‘Folk Singer’ isn't typical Muddy Waters fare, but it's an important album nonetheless and served as a great segue into the not-so-distant past of Blues music.

Muddy Waters’ ‘Electric Mud’ Turns 55 | Album Anniversary

September 30, 2023 Patrick Corcoran

More than a curio or some relic to be pulled off the shelf intermittently, ‘Electric Mud’ is a gateway drug to the unfettered joys and heartbreaks of blues music.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.