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Byrds, The, Gram Parsons: Going Up the Country: The Byrds and Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Retrospective by Bill Wasserzieher, ICE, August 2003
THOUGH OPINIONS differ on who recorded the first country-rock album, there is no question that the Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo was the first one ...
Brian Wilson: Gettin' in Over My Head
Report by Gene Sculatti, ICE, June 2004
WITH A RESILIENCE REMINISCENT of that battery-powered bunny or California's governor in his biggest pre-politics role, Brian Wilson is back again. Fresh on the ...
Van Morrison: Magic Time: Van the Man's New Lucky 13
Review and Interview by Gene Sculatti, ICE, May 2005
THE ARTIST who famously proclaimed It's Too Late to Stop Now means what he says. In 1974, when Van Morrison used the phrase for the ...
John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival: John Fogerty: The Long Road Home
Interview by Gene Sculatti, ICE, October 2005
IT'S NOT HARD TO UNDERSTAND how a popular artist might tire of singing the words to his biggest hits after decades of doing so. Year ...
Burt Bacharach: At This Time: Burt Bacharach
Report and Interview by Gene Sculatti, ICE, November 2005
AFTER 40-PLUS YEARS, one of America's greatest songwriters finally has something to say. Which is not to suggest that songs like 'Close to You' or ...
Dion: The Wanderer Walks with the Blues
Interview by Gene Sculatti, ICE, Winter 2005
IT'S A SHAME that, these days, a singer this good needs a qualifier. Until the arrival of Celine, there was only one Dion — Dion ...
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Essential Reading: Bud Scoppa's 1971 Byrds classic