For nearly 4 decades, the Wilson sisters have remained the most dynamic duo in rock. As Heart, with Ann’s lead vocals and Nancy on guitar as the core, the group has fifteen albums and over 35 million units sold. At […]
For nearly 4 decades, the Wilson sisters have remained the most dynamic duo in rock. As Heart, with Ann’s lead vocals and Nancy on guitar as the core, the group has fifteen albums and over 35 million units sold. At […]
Unless you’re a sexagenarian, you probably weren’t there when all these iconic country music performers were strutting their stuff on television in the early fifties. A lot of these images were taken from Grand Ole Opry shows which were shot […]
Bruce Springsteen In Focus 1980-2012, Debra Rothenberg Like hundreds of thousands of other rabid fans, Debra Rothenberg has had an obsession with Bruce Springsteen for most of her adult life. But unlike most of the others, through her camera, the Fairlawn, […]
Once upon a time, gospel had soul. From the fifties to the early ’80s, gospel music was the mothership for soul men and women who started out in church. Since its launch in 1951, Nashville’s Nashboro records was the go-to […]
The Animals : The Mickie Most Years And More The cover photo on their U.S debut album shows a quintet of fresh scrubbed teens in dress shirts and ties looking like ’60s era frat boys. But the disc inside reveals a […]
They call him the human jukebox. But Sleepy Labeef is more than just a guy whose buttons you push to reproduce somebody else’s sounds. When Sleepy wraps his tonsils around a tune, he owns it, blasting out at you with […]
Although it’s a daunting task to sort through Amnesty International’s 16 hour epic documentation of their concerts from ’86-’98 to raise money and awareness for their cause, it’s a journey you’ll find yourself drawn back to again and again. Some […]
It’d be unfair to label Cyril Neville a bluesman. Not that he can’t do it, its just that he brings so much more to the table. First with the Neville Brothers, then the Meters, and more recently Royal Southern Brotherhood, Neville’s syncopated, funk […]
Keb Mo said he was “funkier than three day ole chitlin.’” Although he calls Fayetteville, North Carolina home, singer /guitarist Billy Thompson slings funky soul from Chicago to Memphis to New Orleans. His label, Soul Stew, is an apt description […]
Leslie West is back, bigger and badder than ever. On his latest, Still Climbing, on the Provogue/Mascot label October 29, West sounds as good vocally and instrumentally as he did back in ’69 on his debut Mountain. He kicks it off […]