Tag Archives: Res

The Long Lost MSTRs of the KRFT

When I walked out of the Best Buy at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside on a weekend afternoon in 2001 with a copy of singer Res‘ debut album How I Do I had no idea I’d still be talking about it some seven years later. Yet and still, here I am doing just that. […]

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Four)

They’re the best around; the fourth and final day of El Keter’s favorites of 2008.

“Stay Gold, Ponyboy. Stay Gold…” © Daniel Laruso

In this era of dumbed-down lyrics, light weight content and repetitious hooks perpetrated by disposable idols jockying for a position in the media’s popularity contest, good songwriters don’t get a lot of shine. This was the case back in 2001 when I discovered a female singer, ostensibly presented to the public as an R&B artist, […]