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Interview by Ira Robbins, Newsday, 10 August 1993
JOHN SEBASTIAN of the Lovin' Spoonful was all of 22 when he sang, "I think I've come to see myself at last." ...
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant: Felice Bryant 1925-2003
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, April 2003
SONGWRITER FELICE BRYANT (77) died of cancer at her home in Gatlinburg, Tennessee on April 22. She and her husband Boudleaux Bryant were very ...
Review by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 7 July 1992
"SHOW US YER TITS!" is still the rule of thumb for yobbos throughout the global village whenever a woman dares open her mouth a little ...
Warren Zevon: How L.A.'s 'Excitable Boy' Won the Battle with the Bottle
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 10 April 1980
"L.A. rock's newest darling desperado, Warren Zevon, likes to start his day with a screwdriver, then clear his head with coffee and a side of ...
Pretenders, The, Chrissie Hynde: The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde (2010)
Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages Audio, 22 January 2010
The Pretenders frontwoman on songwriting and songs; being a band member, and an extended exposition on her vegetarianism and the brutality of the meat business.
File format: mp3; file size: 70.8mb, interview length: 1h 17' 22" sound quality: *** (phoner)
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Rock's Backpages Audio, May 2000
Taking tea in Soho's brand-new Sanderson Hotel, the great singer-songwriter talks about... well, almost everything: getting older; being perceived as a "dark" moralist; not being commercial; his good pal Jackson Browne; David Geffen; addiction, sobriety and therapy; his parents; plus songwriting and his diffidence in talking about it.
File format: mp3; total file size: 43.6mb, interview length: 45' 22" sound quality: ***
Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages Audio, 4 April 1991
Bob on why he writes songs, how he writes songs, what he writes songs about, what he doesn't write songs about, the keys he writes songs in, where he likes to write songs, what songs are and aren't, and some memories of his own songs.
File format: mp3; file size: 75.5mb, interview length: 1h 22' 29" sound quality: **½
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages Audio, June 1977
The Louisiana Swamp God on having his best stuff rejected by Warner Bros.; selling songs to others, and his pleasure at some of their versions; Elvis doing 'Polk Salad Annie'; on songwriting; on being compared to Barry White; on going fishing with his mom, and eating catfish; his new album, Eyes, and looking back at how he got started.
File format: mp3; file size: 21.9mb, interview length: 22' 47" sound quality: *****
Carina Round: Elbow Room, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 6 August 2001
Sweetness rules in the pool hall ...
Kate Nash: Village Underground, London
Live Review by Rick Pearson, The Evening Standard, 23 April 2010
Growing up and away from Lily ...
Last Shadow Puppets, The: The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age Of The Understatement
Review by Paul Moody, Uncut, May 2008
NOW IT ALL makes sense. Anyone who, on hearing Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare, wondered where Alex Turner had mislaid his melodies now has their ...
Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Paul Simon: 'I Thought I Was a Has-Been at 19'
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 30 April 1966
PAUL SIMON is the composer of 21 songs, most of which have been put to work for him very profitably. ...
Elvis Costello: My Aim Is True (Columbia)
Review by Jeffrey Morgan, Stage Life, February 1978
LIKE IT OR NOT, youd better watch out 'cause talent will out, which is exactly why youre hearing so much about Elvis Costello these days. ...
Laura Nyro: Union Chapel, Islington, London
Live Review by Rob Steen, MOJO, February 1995
WHEN LAURA PLAYED MONTEREY, nerves and rushed rehearsals saw her flounder as the hairies waited for Hendrix. Tonight there are enough baldies in the pews ...
Billy Bragg: SXSW: Billy Bragg plays songs from new album, plus one inspired by the Bible
Report and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, 15 March 2013
"THE PROBLEM with most protest songs," Billy Bragg said Wednesday afternoon, "is people spend all their time on the protest and not enough on the ...
Review by Ian Penman, The Wire, September 2000
IS THERE any point in anyone trying to recast the lassitudinous spacesail of Tim Buckley? As a singer, Buckley belongs to the Eternal(s), so aren't ...
Ivy League, The: The Ivy League: Songwriting Hit-Makers
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 13 February 1965
FROM INSIDE the music publisher's office came the familiar sounds of creation, Tin Pan Alley style — tentative chords being hammered out on a piano ...
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, May 2004
ROUSE CLOSES the first of two nights here with a version of Neil Young's 'For The Turnstiles' so intense and intimate that when he sings ...
Lorde: New Band Of The Week: Lorde
Profile by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 7 June 2013
THIS NZ TEEN is about to make a big splash beyond blog-land. Think Lily meets Lana, only cuter and more cutting. ...
Laura Nyro: Berkeley Community Theater, Berkeley CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 January 1970
Poetess at the Piano Comes Back on Top ...
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