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Chris Clark: Motown's Great White Hope: Chris Clark

Retrospective and Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 21 August 2009

CHRIS CLARK was a 17-year-old, 6-foot platinum blond when she arrived at Motown's Detroit headquarters in 1963 -- demo in hand -- to audition for ...

Johnny Otis, 1921-2012

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 ...

Beyoncé: I'm More Than What You Made of Me: Making Sense of Beyoncé's Curious Film Career

Essay by Jason King, Red Bull Academy Magazine, 18 February 2019

Jason King explores the best and worst of Beyoncé's movie roles – and how they help us better understand her path to global superstardom. ...

Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Jerry Wexler: Jerry Wexler: Production without style — on purpose

Interview by Fred Goodman, Musician, June 1993

Hands-off from Muscle Shoals to Stax to New York City ...

Etta James, Allen Toussaint: Jerry Wexler: Producer with a Fan's Passion

Interview by Sam Sutherland, High Fidelity, August 1978

ON A BLEAK, sunless afternoon, Jerry Wexler sits comfortably in the shadows of a recording studio control room, listening to the playback of a vocal ...

Adele, Duffy, Laura Marling: Adele, Duffy et al: This Year's Vintage

Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 January 2008

Caroline Sullivan on 2008's big female voices ...

Joe Tex: Ain't Gonna Bump No More

Obituary by Cliff White, NME, 28 August 1982

Soul legend Tex is dead ...

Tina Turner: If This Is Vegas, Give Me More

Live Review by Cliff White, NME, 18 February 1978

JANUARY, Millie Jackson; February, Tina Turner; soon to come, Gladys Knight...gee whizz, can it all be too much for this white boy? No, no, no; ...

Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now

Review by Gerrie Lim, Big O, April 2000

TO PUT IT MILDLY, the new year's most surprising new album has arrived. And it comes from Joni Mitchell, the woman who wrote Woodstock and ...

Bobby Charles obituary

Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 15 January 2010

THE ROCK'N'ROLL CLASSICS 'See You Later, Alligator' and 'Walking to New Orleans' are among the compositions of the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter Bobby Charles, who has died aged ...

Cornell Dupree obituary

Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 23 May 2011

FOR A TIME in the mid-1960s, the band of the great rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist King Curtis contained two guitarists. The first, Jimi Hendrix, ...

Sue Records: Not So Much A Label

Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 February 1965

STORY OF BRITAIN'S STRANGEST RECORD LABEL ...

Sexy Soulful Women

Overview by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 27 June 1970

I'M NOT sure why, but I'm more often moved by men singing than by women. Somehow I can identify with a much larger range of ...

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 ...

Shuggie Otis: Nightstick: Shuggie Otis

Report by Kirk Silsbee, New Times Los Angeles, 5 July 2001

THE GUITAR-PLAYING son of R&B pioneer Johnny Otis was a genuine Los Angeles success story in the early 1970s. ...

James and Bobby Purify: Their Two-Timing Puppet

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 11 May 1976

Discerning U.K. record buyers have shown their mettle once again. The Purify boys' recut of 'I'm Your Puppet' has virtually been passed over in the ...

Our Native Daughters: Songs of Our Native Daughters

Review by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 21 February 2019

FOUR BLACK FEMALE BANJO PLAYERS wrestling with gender, race, slavery, sexual assault and the domination of the male gaze might make an admirable-if-arduous prospect, but ...

Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls

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 ...

Larry Williams

Retrospective by Mick Farren, MOJO, July 2000

ON JANUARY 7, 1980, THE BODY OF LARRY WILLIAMS WAS FOUND lying in a pool of blood on the garage floor of his Laurel Canyon ...

Joe Tex: The Clown Prince of Soul

Sleevenotes by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Very Best of Joe Tex' (Charly Records), May 1988

WHEN NASHVILLE publisher-producer Buddy Killen first met Joe Tex in 1961, the singer already had six years of recording and performing under his belt. They ...


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