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McCabe's Hippie Spirit Celebrates Anniversary
Report and Interview by Todd Everett, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 30 January 1982
TOMORROW, MCCABE'S guitar shop in Santa Monica is marking its 13th anniversary, even though its actual opening took place in October, 1969 (which means, if ...
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 17 May 1991
Brit-folk doyenne Shirley Collins revisists her 1971 No Roses album track by track and discusses how the songs were chosen – and the move away from folk tradition. Collins also talks about 10,000 Maniacs' cover of 'Just as the Tide was a-Flowing'; working with Maddy Prior and Fairport Convention; the Albion Country Band... and about the state of folk today.
File format: mp3; file size: 55.1mb, interview length: 57' 22" sound quality: *****
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. ...
Sandpipers, The: The Sandpipers: Grads Graduate to Big Time
Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1967
SUCH DIVERSE elements as a book on zoology, the Mitchell Boys Choir and a Spanish song all conjoined one day to produce one of the ...
Melanie's Looking For A Bag Of Her Very Own
Profile by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 19 April 1969
YOU CAN'T BE neutral about Melanie. She's one of those people who comes along and creates new dividing lines in the scene, setting people at ...
Duke Ellington, Odetta: Ian Dove Gives a Big NME Welcome to Ellington and Odetta
Profile by Ian Dove, NME, 11 January 1963
COME SLUMP or boom, war or peace, fad or fashion, Duke Ellington has gone on leading a big band. For 37 years, to be precise! ...
HAIM: New Band of the Week: HAIM
Profile by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 23 March 2012
A band featuring three sisters, who combine the wafty whimsy of folk with R&B beats. It shouldn't really work. It does ...
Adam Masterson: Younger and wiser
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 27 May 2003
THE GLUT OF ARTISTS working in the alt-country and folk-rock areas might be a logical reaction against the treacly deluge of pubescent pop, but there ...
The Pogues, Shane MacGowan: Shane MacGowan: It's A Long Way From Tipperary
Retrospective by Ian Fortnam, Vox, January 1998
AS PUNK PASSION dissipated and died, choking on its own irrelevance, a generation of serial venters were suddenly deprived of its primal, therapeutic effect. The ...
Spencer Davis Group, Jackie Trent, Vashti Bunyan: Vashti agrees: her last name must go (it's Bunyan)
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 15 May 1965
VASHTI BUNYAN is the latest in a stream of refined, nicely brought-up, middle-class girls whose well-bred accents have adorned the hit parade since Marianne Faithfull ...
Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 24 April 1966
Folk Singers From the 'Source' ...
Joni Mitchell: A little bit of Ecology Rock from Joni...
Interview by Ray Connolly, The Evening Standard, 3 January 1970
"THE MONEY you get paid as a singer is all out of proportion. In America they pay you to sing — but they don't pay ...
Fairport Convention: Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking
Review by Jim Irvin, The Word, April 2003
Three reissued albums find Fairport Convention on the edge of greatness ...
David Crosby: "The FBI scare me more than Hell's Angels"
Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 26 February 2014
The legendary songwriter on Janis Joplin, being "the voice of cosmic America" and Croz, his first solo album in 20 years. ...
Ian Tyson: Cowboy troubadour: Ian Tyson is riding high again
Profile and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's, 13 February 1989
THE AUDITORIUM was a sea of cowboy hats in a variety of styles – High Sierra, Ridgetop and Cattleman. The ranchers, cowhands and wives were ...
Roger McGuinn, Byrds, The: Roger McGuinn Interview
Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, unpublished, 2 April 1999
AUTHOR'S NOTE, Oct. 11, 2014: The following is an expanded version of my Roger McGuinn interview, a shorter version of which was first published at ...
Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel: Paul Simon
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 28 May 1970
PAUL SIMON arrived wearing a blue loden coat with the hood pulled up. Beneath it he had on black trousers and a black shirt. He ...
Gary Lucas: Invisible Jukebox: Gary Lucas
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, February 2001
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Bob Dylan: Revolution In His Head
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, February 2005
40 years ago this month, Bob Dylan walked into Columbia's Studio A and walked out having invented rock music as we know it. Corralling eyewitness ...
Shirley Collins (1991) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 17 May 1991
This is a transcript of John's audio interview with Shirley. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
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