Howard Tate
8 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages Audio, June 2004
The great lost voice of soul recounts his career, from childhood gospel in Philadelphia, through his '60s hits with Jerry Ragavoy, his leaving music behind and the dark years, right up to his recent rediscovery and revival.
File format: mp3; file size: 52.4mb, interview length: 54' 36" sound quality: ****
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Howard Tate and Lou Courtney: The Blues and Dance Men
Profile by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 8 September 1973
TWO ARTISTS of widely different appeal, Howard Tate and Lou Courtney both deserve inclusion in this series because although only modestly successful even in the ...
Report by Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, 14 April 2001
"They had a thing in MOJO, like, Whatever happened to Howard Tate? He’s gotta be fuckin’ dead, man!"– David Johansen, talking to Rock’s Backpages, January ...
Howard Tate: The Return Of A Soul Music Master
Interview by Peter Stone Brown, Gadfly, 22 October 2001
"Last I heard about him he was in New York, and Jerry Ragovoy used to produce him. He made all these demos with the guy ...
Sleeve notes by Andy Schwartz, Private Music/RCA, 2003
NOTE: I was surprised and very saddened to learn that the great soul singer Howard Tate had died 12.2.11 at age 72, reportedly from complications ...
Profile and Interview by Gavin Martin, Record Collector, June 2004
HOWARD TATE is sitting opposite me sipping black coffee in the bar of a West End Hotel and I can hardly believe it. Until recently ...
Freddie King and Howard Tate are the Soul of Gospel and Blues
Report by Kirk Silsbee, Pasadena Weekly, 16 February 2006
TOO OFTEN we're reminded that soul – the fundament of black gospel and blues—is fast slipping away from us. Losing Wilson Pickett and Lou Rawls in ...
Roll with the Punches: An Interview with Jerry Ragovoy
Interview by Dan Nooger, Record Collector, May 2017
The late Jerry Ragovoy wrote and arranged some of the greatest records of the last century. This unpublished interview by Dan Nooger found him recalling ...
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