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Obituary by Kirk Silsbee, LA Weekly, 19 January 2012
BANDLEADER, drummer/pianist, talent scout, club owner, broadcaster, recording executive, writer, and recording artist Johnny Otis passed away Jan. 17 at the age of 90 in ...
Retrospective by Carol Cooper, Village Voice, 23 January 2012
ETTA JAMES used to tell a story about meeting Billie Holiday in which Holiday told her — fatherless wild child to fatherless wild child — ...
Florence and the Machine, Queens of Noize: Mairead Nash
Interview by Kate Allen, IDOL, February 2012
DJ, presenter, model and manager Mairead Nash is an unquestionable and enduring insider of the music industry. As we discuss the many facets of her ...
Whitney Houston: The Greatest Voice Of Her Generation
Comment by Andy Gill, The Independent, 17 February 2012
Wannabes are rife, yet she was a singular talent, says Andy Gill ...
Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, March 2012
JOHNNY OTIS was relaxing in his San Francisco hotel room one afternoon in 1954 when his manager called from the lobby and said he was ...
Timi Yuro: That Time Of Yuro: Timi Yuro
Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, blurt-online.com, 23 April 2012
ANY LIST OF proto-feminist Top 40 hits of the 1960s would have to include Timi Yuro's 1962 'What's A Matter Baby' along with Lesley Gore's ...
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, May 2012
Assured full-length debut by precocious spawn of Muscle Shoals. THERE IS MUCH to admire about Boys & Girls, the full-length debut by Alabama Shakes, not ...
Carolina Chocolate Drops: Sweet Sounds: Rhiannon Giddens and Carolina Chocolate Drops
Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, June 2012
RHIANNON GIDDENS'S birthday back in February was a bittersweet occasion. The Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder-member's celebrations were tempered by her grief upon learning of the ...
Obituary by Lois Wilson, MOJO, January 2013
The inspirational folk-jazz-soul singer songwriter died last month. Lois Wilson salutes him. ...
Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell: Old Friends, New Record: Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell
Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, March 2013
It was a long time coming but, as Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell explain to David Burke, their new album together was all a matter ...
Civil Wars, the: The Civil Wars: The Civil Wars
Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 1 August 2013
TAYLOR SWIFT disses exes with singalong choruses, Rihanna duets with her abusive beau, but no pop act makes outsize romantic dysfunction sound as extravagantly pretty ...
It's in the Mud: Muscle Shoals
Film/DVD/TV Review by Mitchell Cohen, Rock's Backpages, 2 August 2013
MUSCLE SHOALS, directed by Greg "Freddy" Camalier, is one of the latest in a loosely-linked series of music documentaries – Standing In The Shadows of Motown, The ...
Earth, Wind & Fire 'Promise' to Keep Rocking
Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Ebony, 5 August 2013
WHEN EARTH, Wind and Fire's bass player extraordinaire Verdine White speaks affectionately about his influential group playing shows in the mid-1970s, one is instantly transported ...
Civil Wars, the: The Civil Wars: The Civil Wars
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 6 August 2013
PRESSURE MAKES DIAMONDS — or coal dust. For The Civil Wars, the triple Grammy-winners whose stark acoustica shook pop music, it created both. Amongst their ...
Skip Spence: Dark Star: The Tragic Genius Of Skip Spence
Retrospective by Rob Hughes, Classic Rock, 23 January 2015
Moby Grape co-founder Skip Spence wrote his album Oar in a psychiatric ward after threatening his bandmates with an axe. Fifteen years after his death, artists ...
Brother To Brother: In The Bottle – The Complete Album Collection
Sleevenotes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, March 2015
IF THE GROUP, Brother to Brother is remembered for anything, it's their hit interpretation of Gil Scott-Heron's classic 'The Bottle'. The song was written as ...
"Brother" Jack McDuff: Brother Jack McDuff: Kisses/Having A Good Time/Live It Up (Sugarhill)
Sleevenotes by Bob Fisher, unpublished, June 2015
ALL PLATINUM RECORDS, based in New Jersey, was a remarkably powerful force in Black music during the early 1970s and prided itself on being a ...
Minnie Riperton: 10 of the best tracks
Guide by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 29 June 2016
She had a five-octave vocal range, inspired Stevie Wonder and gave birth to Maya Rudolph – the tragedy is that this huge musical talent died ...
Aretha Franklin: The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Retrospective by Lois Wilson, MOJO, February 2017
IT'S THE EVENING of January 24, 1967, downtown Florence, Alabama. Rick Hall, the owner of Fame Studios in nearby Muscle Shoals, is stood in the ...
Retrospective by Caryn Rose, salon.com, 20 March 2017
Keith Richards worked like a dog to get Chuck Berry's 60th-birthday concert right and Berry treated him like one ...
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