“You know, I’m the inventor of the reggae,” Toots Hibbert told me in an interview for Creative Loafing Charlotte in 2007. “People used to call it what they want to call it, boogie beat or blue beat. I come up […]
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At its heart, gospel music is joyous, celebrating life, love, hope, and redemption, even in the face of loss, uncertainty, and death. The music itself — fervent choruses that mount higher and higher with praise, call-and-response shouts that pull listeners […]
Camila Cabello may have opened the 2019 Grammy Awards with her song called “Havana,” but the theatrical performance featuring rapper Young Thug, singers J Balvin and Ricky Martin, and trumpet player Arturo Sandoval barely scratched the surface of the scope […]
Compilation albums are usually a treat for the listener. When done correctly, they combine wonderful songs with some of the best artists and musicians in the business. “Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout” which was released on Nov. 16, showcases the songs […]
Many baby boomers got their first taste of the blues through an English filter. Starting in the ’60s, Brit blues/rockers like The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Led Zeppelin, and John Mayall and the Blues Breakers introduced American teens […]
The fount of Americana music flows not from upstate New York and a big pink house, or from the laid-back psychedelic country of Southern California sweetheart’s rodeo. The headwaters of Americana music flow straight out of little towns in Alabama […]
The music that flowed out of Muscle Shoals studios is the fount of Americana music. The dynamic group of studio musicians and writers that layered the singular sound emanating from FAME gained their own measure of fame, of course, in […]
It looks like the Stones logo, but on closer inspection, the face around the protruding tongue is a bit more weathered and hairy than the Stones original. Maybe it’s truth in advertising at last – the old boys acknowledging their […]
“My name is Roger Miller, probably one of the greatest songwriters that ever lived, and I have written a few songs, probably eight or nine hundred in my professional career and I would like to do about 700 or 750 […]
Bluegrass artist John Duffey probably needs no introduction. The late Washington D.C. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist founded two highly influential bands in the world of roots music, after all – The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene. Credited with widening the […]
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