DON McLEAN AMERICAN BOYS BMG/THE ORCHARD Imagine that you’re a veteran singer-songwriter in your late 70s. You have had a storied career, and you wrote one of the most iconic pop songs of the 20th century. What kind of recording do you make in [...]
I’M STILL DOING MY THING A CONVERSATION WITH DON McLEAN “I’ve got a lot of albums, a lot of songs, a lot of appearances, because I only did one thing: exactly what it is that I’m doing. I never got diverted away into anything else. I only [...]
GIVE IT TO ME STRAIGHT, SANTA! I CAN TAKE IT! SPILL MAGAZINE EXPOSES SOME OF THE BEST/WORST 2023 CHRISTMAS RELEASES (PART TWO) As The Beatles once sang, “Christmastime is here again, it ain’t been around since you know when.” That means a whole [...]
BYE BYE, MISS AMERICAN PIE A CONVERSATION WITH DON McLEAN While there are countless classic albums from the ‘70s, few songs can stand as truly timeless. These are songs that connect with the mainstream conciseness and find a way to remain [...]
BOTANICAL GARDENS A CONVERSATION WITH DON McLEAN It has been eight years since the last Don McLean album. On March 16, 2018 he released his 19th studio album, Botanical Gardens. Perhaps it is not the album fans or one would expect from Don [...]
Don McLean Botanical Gardens BMG One never knows what Don McLean will do next or when, for that matter. Botanical Gardens is his first studio album since 2009’s Addicted To Black. So it has been a while for McLean but it has been well worth the [...]
