He looks like a Southern rocker, a big ol’ grizzly bear standing on his hind legs roaring. But there’s a lot more to Marcus King. Underneath that furry exterior beats the heart of a soul man with the blues who […]
He looks like a Southern rocker, a big ol’ grizzly bear standing on his hind legs roaring. But there’s a lot more to Marcus King. Underneath that furry exterior beats the heart of a soul man with the blues who […]
Once upon a time, a bunch of California musicians decided to go snipe hunting in the swamp. Since nobody is sure just what kind of critter a snipe is, they had a lot of leeway to trap their critter, stuff […]
He’s got long hair and a bus, and a tour schedule fit for any dedicated road dawg. But that’s about all Lukas and daddy Willie Nelson have in common. Willie had Lukas and brother Micah onstage with him since they […]
They call it Swamp Raga. Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi came up with that name for their home recording studio in Jacksonville, Florida, but it’s a fitting label for their sound as well. Bolstered by analog technology, tube amps, and […]
San Franciscan Vince Guaraldi had already established himself as a pianist and composer, first with Cal Tjader and then as a leader of his own group, when producer Lee Mendelson came knocking. Mendelson had been enchanted by Guaraldi’s 1963 surprise […]
As indicated by the “free man in Paris” liner notes, the foreign land is France, though the rapturously romantic title ballad informs that the other country is also “love.” Fear not, Tift fans, she hasn’t turned chanteuse on us, except […]
Because brothers, lawyers, and egos were involved, we’ll never really know what actually happened to Creedence Clearwater Revival. What they did during their spectacular five-year run was pretty simple: They topped the charts while writing and recording archetypal American rock […]
Creedence Clearwater Revival was a rarity, an American band that gained massive popularity and used it to produce statements — musical and more — against the popular progressive rock grain of their moment. Some of that phenomenal popular success (15 […]
The guitarist strums a simple instrumental figure; he’s soon joined by the fiddler sawing an age-old melody. The duo then assay an uneasy vocal harmony, one voice pinched and reedy, the other (rendered “normal” only by comparison) lower, more controlled, […]
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