For many rock acts, 1968 was a year for exploring psychedelia and the outer limits of the studio. The Beatles took off on a Magical Mystery Tour, for example, while Jimi Hendrix served up the otherworldly guitar excursions of Electric […]
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Memories of the night of Oct. 29, 2016, at Atlanta’s Lakewood Amphitheatre will forever be etched in the mind of guitarist and songwriter Tommy Talton. It was the last time Talton spoke to and played with Gregg Allman, joining him […]
Even for an artist as consistently productive and aesthetically satisfying as psychedelic folk troubadour Robyn Hitchcock has been over the past four decades, 2017 was an especially rewarding year. For those paying attention, Hitchcock is seemingly everywhere – in concert, […]
Link Wray, Charley Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, Monk Boudreaux Shine Among the Many Native American Creators of Blues, Jazz and Rock Celebrated in Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World rumblethemovie.com This brightly-edited, fast-paced yet thoughtful new documentary […]
This week, we’re going to circle back to a St. Louis public station that seems to be doing a good job of keeping good radio on the air. It always interests me what artists the people mention as favorites or […]
I don’t go to these type of events very often, because I’m either at a concert or festival catching the music live, nor am I a very big book reader in general. But when I saw that Robbie Robertson was going […]
Forty years have passed since the the Band walked out on the stage on Thanksgiving for their farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. It was one of the landmark concerts in rock and roll history and, arguably, the greatest […]
Snow was general over the mountains, just a little more to the north, but Woodstock basked over Thanksgiving weekend in chilly air and the last fall leaves, hanging on and brightening the streets and yards of the little town. The […]
Back in May 1978, I walked into the cool, dark, Rialto Theater in Atlanta, not knowing exactly what to expect. We arrived a little late, so the film had already begun; the Band had just kicked off “It Makes No […]
Many noteworthy events happened 50 years ago: France withdrew from NATO, India suffered its worst famine in 20 years, Medicare began in the USA and the Supreme Court decided the Miranda vs. Arizona case, which established rights for people accused […]
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