Q: What was your introduction to music? How old were you, and how did it affect you? A: The music genres I heard most in our home as a young boy were gospel and soul with the blues sensibilities. This […]
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Colorado-based jazz vocalist Wil Alston may have released his debut album, Introducing Wil Alston, at an older age than many new artists, but with that comes a more seasoned and powerful singer. For jazz and soul music, the older you […]
During the month of June, everyone is celebrating love and the freedom of expression. Brooklyn-based artist Niva (aka the Soul Diva) celebrates both with her latest EP, entitled Life Love and Music. I had the pleasure of chatting with Niva […]
Part Four (of four parts) Lockn’ Festival: LOCKN’ Festival celebrates its fifth year in 2017. Located in Central Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the festival site is halfway between Charlottesville and Lynchburg. According to their website, “We’re a group of dedicated […]
Here’s To Life!: The Story Of The Refreshments There was a brief time in the mid-’90s when a small Arizona bar band took popular music by storm. Following a heralded appearance at SXSW, Tempe’s The Refreshments were signed by Mercury […]
In 1964, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium hosted the first televised rock concert. The TAMI show(Teenage Awards Music International) was supposed to be a nonprofit foundation funded by yearly concerts that would award teens music scholarship. None of that would […]
The Woodstock and Monterey Pop films offer quite a flash from the past, but if you want to know how much and how fast the culture changed during the sixties, step back just a few more years and watch The […]
James Brown may have been the hardest working man in America, but he’s now the hardest to find, most elusive figure in popular music. Almost four years ago, RJ Smith delivered what looked to be — and in many minds remains […]
Most music book publishers release their best books in the fall — roughly August to January, depending on the publishing house — and I had the opportunity just a few months ago to plod, trudge, or breeze through door-stopping memoirs […]
Randall Bramblett says his new album, Devil Music, is “a good bit nastier and edgier than my other records.” With such a title, that aim may be understandable for the veteran singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. The album and its title track […]
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