Love and Curses

Memphis garage-rock fixture Greg Cartwright continues to unearth intriguing corners of 1950s and 60s rock and pop.

Greg Cartwright’s soulful garage-rock outfit Reigning Sound is responsible for one of the decade’s best albums—2002’s Time Bomb High School—but has spent much of the rest of the ’00s off-road. The 2004 LP Too Much Guitar is terrific in its own way, but replaces Time Bomb’s warm, winning vibe with atypical…