(Associated Press) CHICAGO — Albertina Walker’s singing once stopped the filming of a movie because so many actors were moved to tears by the “Queen of Gospel.” At home in Chicago, she babied her beloved French poodles, wore rhinestone sunglasses […]
(NOTE: Like you, I hate the fact that marketing of Christmas items begins in October, but regardless here is the press release) Rolling Stone calls her “the original bad girl of rock,” but this year Ronnie Spector has been very […]
Quite simply, Lennon’s masterpiece
The song is always the most important thing and many a wonderful tune has been ruined by bumptious guitar playing. The guitar should work with a song and not against it; shredding certainly has it’s place, but not on every […]
In may ways this goes along with a post I wrote earlier in the week about the public’s seeming inability to see past a song’s surface and to label it as something that it isn’t simply because of a chorus […]
Most of my favorite artists were and are outlaws, people who weren’t afraid of boundaries or of stepping over them. Sadly, because of political correctness, much of this has been lost. I’m not talking about artists who set out to […]
(From the press release) On October 21, 2010, celebrities and musicians will come out to show their support for a very special evening billed as “A Celebration of Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Camps,” at New York’s Avery Fisher […]
