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 […]
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Gene Clark is finally getting his due. For decades, Roger McGuinn received most of the credit for the Byrds’ impact on rock and roll, tied in with psychedelic, country, and folk music. McGuinn was the unquestioned leader, and there’s no reason […]
To those of us who were around the folk music scene of the sixties and to either academic or armchair ethnomusicologists, guitarists both old and young of the past and present, Bruce Langhorne is not unfamiliar. And should you not […]
“You ask the average person what a bass is, or what a bass sounds like, and most of the time, they don’t know. But remove the bass from any piece of music and suddenly it becomes the largest missing piece […]
“The music I love is pure. It is guitar, bass, drums, and some keyboards. It’s rock and roll! My mantra is ‘don’t bore us get to the chorus’ which goes back to [playing] in the Mambo Sons. Anything I’ve ever […]
I personally can credit KFAT radio for much of my musical education back in the 1970s. The station not only played great music, they had a sense of humor, which is not heard on music radio much these days. Sully Roddy […]
The Byrds created timeless music. They were folk-rock, psychedelic rock, and country rock pioneers and are — okay, I’ll come clean — my favorite band of all time. I could go on and on about the brilliance of original Byrds Roger […]
When Jay Dee Maness started playing pedal steel guitar at age 10, he certainly couldn’t have imagined that 13 years later he would be playing on one of the most important albums in the history of pop music. Maness was […]
It’s been fascinating for me to read about radio personalities from other parts of the world. Although their methods and styles may be different, their musical influences and dedication to their art is a frequent commonality. Bill Frater: Where and when did you start in […]
British band the Raving Beauties possesses all the qualities needed to ensure Americana acceptance — rich harmonies, shimmering melodies, and a knack for effectively echoing the rarified sounds of Southern California during the halcyon days of the late ’60s and […]
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