Echoes
Echoes started out in 1976 as Black Echoes, a weekly newspaper covering mostly soul, funk and reggae, and became a monthly magazine in 2000, broadening its coverage to include hip-hop, jazz and R&B/pop.
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List of articles in the library
Report and Interview by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2002
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, has been a music town for over half a century. In the early 1950s, Lillian McMurry's Trumpet label made Sonny Boy Williamson into ...
Ann Peebles: Brand New Classics
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, May 2006
THE RETURN OF two legendary names from the past: Track Records, the label which gave us Jimi Hendrix and the Who, not to mention fine ...
The Dells: Originals: The Dells
Retrospective by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2008
THE RAYS, formed by five youngsters from Harvey, Illinois in 1952, were just one of the thousands of doo-wop groups springing up in America's cities ...
The Harder They Come: Playhouse Theatre, London
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, Summer 2008
AS AN OTHERWISE unmemorable comedian used to remark, it's the way you tell 'em. It's not much of a story on the face of it: ...
Tim Brown: The Wigan Casino Years (Outta Sight)
Book Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, February 2011
THE TITLE of this striking new book is carefully chosen. Of course there was Northern Soul before the Wigan Casino and, almost 30 years after ...
The Album Cover Art Of Studio One Records (Soul Jazz)
Book Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, December 2011
WITHOUT STUDIO ONE there would still have been reggae music, but it might well have developed differently. ...
Bobby "Blue" Bland: Two Steps From The Blues (Soul Jam)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2012
WHEN BOBBY BLAND'S debut LP Two Steps From The Blues crept out over here on Vogue in the early '60s, one reviewer, whether through bitchiness, ...
Noel Hawks and Jah Floyd: Reggae Going International 1967-1976 – The Bunny "Striker" Lee Story
Book Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2012
IN 2002, BUNNY LEE asked seasoned music journalist Noel Hawks when he was going to write up his story in book form. In the best ...
Various Artists: For Northern Soul Collectors Volume 1 (EMI)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2012
OVER THE YEARS, the mighty EMI company has come to control many American catalogues, from giants like Capitol, Liberty and United Artists to smaller and ...
Various Artists: 100 Years Of The Blues (Universal)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, February 2012
BLUES HAS BEEN an integral part of popular music for decades, and this new 4CD set celebrates its birth, its growth and its ever-widening influence. ...
George Faith, Lee "Scratch" Perry: George Faith: Super Eight (Trojan)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, May 2012
TROJAN RECORDS' resolution for 2012 was obviously to make all fans of creative, forward-looking, barmy producer Lee "Scratch" Perry very happy indeed, and so far ...
Lovey's Original Trinidad String Band: Calypso Dawn (Bear Family)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2013
THIS IS A REMARKABLE album. It captures the music of a Trinidadian dance band which, while undertaking a tour of the USA, recorded sessions for ...
Various Artists: Behind Closed Doors (Kent)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2013
AARON NEVILLE is a remarkable bloke. Muscular and tattooed, he looks like a bodybuilder or a bouncer, until he opens his mouth and sings: the ...
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