Blues may be “America’s music,” and Bobby Rush certainly is our best ambassador since the death of B.B. King. Why then is this award never shown on TV?
Author: Don Wilcock
How will Exceleration help Alligator expand on founder Bruce Iglauer’s vision without turning the music into a “commodity” instead of an “art”? If his history with Concord is any indication, Exceleration CEO Glen Barros is a man who walks the talk.
The instrumentals on ‘Bad Man’ featuring Martin on harp are at times laconic, displaying a studied insouciance, an almost blasé casualness — a free and easy approach that actually isn’t casual at all
In less than a year’s time, the Supremes eclipsed the Miracles, the Temptations, and Mary Wells to become the highest profile group at a label that was redefining the very definition of pop music
It would be too easy to call ‘Out of The Dark’ an Americana album, but there’s too much of a primal scream here to give it that label
Catch this prelude to King Biscuit, the South’s most hallowed blues festival this Saturday night
Remembering Sam Cooke on his 90th birthday
“I don’t want to get up on stage and rehash what somebody else has already recorded. I want to get up on stage and tell my story. I feel that this new record is able to do that.”
“My thing with him was he did not give me this voice, and he can’t do anything with it except what I give and let him use…” – Darlene Love
The list of artists and the backstories of their involvement with the Carter administration, plus the performance footage, makes the two hours of this show pass in a flash