The world of roots music lost one of its most ardent supporters on January 11 when Red House Records president Bob Feldman died at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though Feldman had been battling health problems for some time, […]
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Once puberty has wrought its hellish magic, there isn’t much a young man can do to alter the timbre of his voice. Still, the situation isn’t utterly hopeless. When Hollywood agent Henry Willson decided his young client Rock Hudson sounded […]
Tom Brosseau wants to get something straight about his much-written-about vocal style. “I don’t agree that my voice is effeminate,” says the 28-year-old over drip coffee at the Back Door Bakery in Los Angeles. “I’ve been compared so much to […]
“Ain’t no liquor in London, it’s forty pounds of flesh; We’re goin’ down to the local, for a pint of Scrumpy Jack.” Seated around a dining table, Tres Chicas — Lynn Blakey, Caitlin Cary and Tonya Lamm — were in […]
Falling out of love with old-time music broke Ike Sheldon’s heart. It was like falling out of love with a person, and he can’t listen to bands like the Skillet Lickers anymore. “But,” he says, “we’ll always be friends.” Sheldon’s […]
“Don’t flowery it up too much,” Bill Monroe was known to say. “Boy, you got to chase that melody like a foxhound.” Not one to mince words (or notes), Monroe would readily dispense with the filigree and give it to […]
Ted Jarrett has worked as a producer, label executive, artist manager, and disc jockey. As a songwriter, he’s seen his songs reach the top 5 on both the country and R&B charts. Still, it’s a pretty safe bet that outside […]
“It’s the singer, not the song,” Mick Jagger sang in 1965. Ken Emerson argues to the contrary in Always Magic In The Air, a vibrant and detailed account of seven songwriting teams who worked out of New York’s Brill Building […]
For some, Lou Rawls will forever be thought of as the singer most responsible for supper-clubbing soul music, as the definitive easy listening R&B man, as the voice of “When You Say Bud…”, as Barry White for people who find […]
Jerry Lynn Williams was the best songwriter you’ve never heard of. Though he stayed under the radar as far as the public was concerned, musicians and composers knew the Texas cat as the song doctor. Williams, who passed away November […]
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