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At the singer's Bel Air home, Dave Zimmer discusses Buffalo Springfield, CSNY and solo albums with Stephen Stills (Rock's Backpages audio, 1979)
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Features and interviews
Maureen Cleave gives a warm British welcome to a visiting Roy Orbison (The Evening Standard, 1964)
Ronnie Oberman on the blower to local-boy-made-good Marvin Gaye (Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 1965)
Pete Johnson discusses blues with visiting Brit John Mayall (Los Angeles Times, 1968)
Richard Green catches up with 'Patches' man Clarence Carter (New Musical Express, 1970)
Caroline Boucher hears about the post-Roy Wood ELO from Jeff Lynne (Disc, 1972)
Vernon Gibbs attends Sly Stone's tacky "wedding concert" and rushes to the defence of Betty Davis, (Crawdaddy!, 1974)
Vivien Goldman discusses salsa's commercial prospects with the Fania All-Stars' Ray Barretto (Sounds, 1976)
Jonathan Morrish tells the story of Traffic (Trouser Press, 1978)
Rosalind Russell meets the Mo-dettes (Record Mirror, 1980)
John Abbey learns about soul troupe Maze from frontman Frankie Beverly (Blues & Soul, 1982)
Sylvie Simmons gets fashion tips from Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil (Sounds, 1984)
Dave DiMartino hails maverick chanteuse Essra Mohawk (Creem, 1986)
David Nathan meets the post-Bobby Brown New Edition (Blues & Soul, 1988)
Ethlie Ann Vare hears about sobriety from Marianne Faithfull (Elle, 1990)
Alan Light pays tribute to the Temptations' immortal Eddie Kendricks (Rolling Stone, 1992)
Martin Horsfield meets former Chime Pauline Henry (M8, 1994)
Emma Warren finds out what's up with DJ Justin Robertson (The Face, 1996)
Geoffrey Himes hears about the full working life of country star Martina McBride (Country Music, 1998)
Damon Wise announces the closure of HMV's first record store (MOJO, 2000)
Amy Linden does a spot of neo-soul searching (The Source, 2002)
Richard Harrington reports on Paul Simon receiving the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (The Washington Post, 2007)
Everett True tells the story of Sub Pop Records (Plan B, 2008)
Sophie Heawood meets "surprise supergroup" Broken Bells (The Times, 2010)
Rob Fitzpatrick discusses fame, creativity and politics with Damon Albarn (The Word, 2012)
Rob Hughes' obituary for folk legend Pete Seeger (Uncut, 2014)
Julian Marszalek interviews Earl Brutus' Jim Fry and Gordon King (The Quietus, 2016)
Jaan Uhelski hears about the newfound fame of hopeful romantic Father John Misty (Uncut, 2018)
Michael A. Gonzales meditates on near-forgotten '90s soulster Ephraim Lewis (Maggot Brain, 2020)
Ted Kessler traces his fraternal relationship with Interpol's Daniel Kessler (The Guardian, 2022)
Album & Live Reviews
Pete Johnson sings along to the Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful (Los Angeles Times, 1967)
Philip Elwood catches a terrific night of jazz and blues at UC Berkeley, headlined by Sonny Rollins and Max Roach (The San Francisco Examiner, 1969)
Nick Tosches gets a lungful of Commander Cody's Lost in the Ozone (Rolling Stone, 1971)
Killing him softly: David Nathan reviews Roberta Flack, live at London's Royal Albert Hall (Blues & Soul, 1973)
James Wolcott listens to Elliott Murphy's Lost Generation (The Village Voice, 1975)
Barry Cain sees the Stranglers, live at London's Roundhouse (Record Mirror, 1977)
Ariel Swartley listens to Angela Bofill's Angie (Rolling Stone, 1979)
Richard Harrington catches country icon George Jones, live in Fairfax, Virginia (The Washington Post, 1981)
Limp but catchy: Richard C. Walls reviews the Police's Synchronicity (Creem, 1983)
Polemical pop: Adam Sweeting sees the Style Council, live at Wembley Arena (The Guardian, 1985)
Edwin J. Bernard reviews the eponymous Brit-soul debut that is Paul Johnson (Record Mirror, 1987)
Dave Simpson sees Kitchens Of Distinction, live in Leeds (Melody Maker, 1989)
James Brown is all for Brand Nubian's One For All (New Musical Express, 1991)
Richard Cromelin is knocked out by Replacements frontman-gone-solo Paul Westerberg, live at L.A.'s Whisky (Los Angeles Times, 1993)
Clinton Walker sees Danzig, live at Sydney's Selinas (Rolling Stone (Australia), 1993)
Terry Staunton considers the "bedroom shenanigans" on Baby Bird's Bad Shave (New Musical Express, 1995)
Paul Elliott gets a skinful of Skunk Anansie, live in Birmingham (Kerrang!, 1997)
Steven Wells is terrified by Neurosis' Times Of Grace (New Musical Express, 1999)
Ned Raggett reviews Tool's Lateralus (Freaky Trigger, 2001)
Geoffrey Himes grooves to Rhonda Vincent's One Step Ahead (Country Music, 2003)
Steve LaBate listens to Phish's Undermind (Paste, 2004)
Charles Shaar Murray chews on Greil Marcus' analysis of 'Like A Rolling Stone' (The Independent, 2005)
Stephen Dalton sees the "Sally Bowles for the MySpace generation" that is Lily Allen, live at Sheffield Academy (The Times, 2009)
Rob Young reads and reviews Duncan Heining Equinox's British Jazz, 1960-1975 (The Wire, 2013)
Tom Doyle delves into Foals' What Went Down (MOJO, 2015)
Alfred Soto listens to the Killers' Wonderful Wonderful (Spin, 2017)
Stevie Chick sees Eagles, live at Wembley Stadium (The Guardian, 2019)
Dorian Lynskey on a damning anti-Trump song by Demi Lovato (The Guardian, 2020)