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Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 2 July 1974
THE WELCOME revival in the musical fate of Etta James is highlighted by the release of a fine new album, produced by Gabriel Mekler and ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 13 July 1989
Etta James tells Barney Hoskyns about her struggles with addiction, meeting Billie Holiday, making Seven Year Itch and staying contemporary.
File format: mp3 File size: 40.4mb; Interview length: 44 minutes 5 seconds Sound quality: **
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, 12 July 1978
Etta takes us from 'Roll With Me Henry' to the present day: Johnny Otis; Modern Records and the Biharis; the move to Chess Records and hitting with 'All I Could Do Was Cry'; the end of Chess and working with Rick Hall, and the almost complete absence of royalties in her hit-making days.
File format: mp3; file size: 73.1mb, interview length: 1h 16' 08" sound quality: ****
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, NME, 14 April 1984
MOST EVERY year now Ms Jamesetta Hawkins – Etta to you – will at the behest of Dingwalls Boss (Goodman, that is) fly over ...
Interview by Bill Bentley, LA Weekly, 17 April 1980
A YEAR AGO, Etta James stopped time as surely as if she had point-blanked a Timex with a .357. ...
Etta James' long search for stardom
Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 10 August 1978
IT IS A cruel irony that had she not been a junkie for thirteen of her forty years, Etta James would probably still be working ...
Etta James, Jerry Wexler: Etta James: The Queen Bee of R&B
Interview by Radio Pete, Rocky Mountain Musical Express, July 1978
IT IS almost impossible to write about Etta James and avoid clichés oft used in studies of jazz and soul artists. She's been exploited. She's ...
Etta James: Mama tells us all about it
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, 26 July 1989
WHEN ETTA JAMES was a 17-year old glamour puss with drug-store-peroxide blonde hair and a lewd rock 'n' roll hit called 'Roll With Me Henry' ...
Interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages audio, 24 February 1990
'50s R&B King Otis talks about the songs: 'Willie and the Hand Jive', 'Hound Dog'; the artists: Little Esther, Etta James; his son Shuggie and music education; and he rails against the ravaged black ghettos, and the lie of "integration".
File format: mp3; file size: 31.4mb, interview length: 34' 17" sound quality: ****
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 ...
Joan Osborne: A cowgirl gets the blues
Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 26 January 1996
Joan Osborne has gone from bluegrass country to R&B heaven, says David Sinclair ...
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 ...
Ann Peebles: Hangin' On To Success
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 7 May 1974
ALL OF a sudden, it seems like the whole world is talking about the talents of a magnificently soulful young woman and she puts it ...
Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 26 August 2018
The teenage singer is storming up the charts without the help of a record label. Is this the future? ...
Interview by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979
AN EMPTY hotel restaurant reverberates with the sound of waiters shovelling ice. In a corner, wearing black leather trousers, a zipped jacket and a black ...
Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 25 March 1994
For R&B Hall of Famer Mable John, Music Has Healing Powers ...
Lone Justice: Country Not For Clods
Interview by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 14 July 1983
THERE'S A scene in The Last Picture Show in which Ben Johnson confronts a crowd of kids who, as a prank, have set up a ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 March 1977
You can't keep the good guys down and the Moments have popped up again with their 'Jack In The Box' monster. They talk to B&S ...
Interview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Source, April 2002
THINGS ARE ABOUT to change. Trust. The rap industry may soon find itself caught out there as many hiphop fans seek sounds more suited for ...
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