Rock music

I don’t know whether there’s a credible list of the great underrated rock albums of the 1970s, but Wishbone Ash’s “Argus” should be on it. A mixture of prog-rock, hard rock and bluesy folk, “Argus” is revered by fans like me because of prime cuts such as “Blowin’ Free” and “Time Was.”

Was that really 50 years ago? I must have been, ahem, 3 years old back then.

Others who remember “Argus” will want to be at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach on Monday night when the British band will perform the album live as part of its “Phoenix Rising America” tour.

I did a little research on when Wishbone Ash first played in San Diego. It seems to have been in June 1973 at then-San Diego Stadium on a bill with ELO and Mason Proffit. Tell a friend at the Belly Up. bellyup.com

Coddon writes the Union-Tribune’s Arts+Culture Newsletter, which is published every Thursday. Portions of that newsletter are reprinted in this column. To get the newsletter in its entirety, sign up for it at sandiegouniontribune.com/utartsculture.