We are told ….. James Brown, live on Soul Train, America’s leading TV showcase for soul, funk and R&B. By 1973 James Brown was known as ‘the Godfather of Soul’, reflecting his huge influence over a new generation of black singers. It was therefore inevitable that he would appear on Soul Train, America’s leading TV […]
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51 million views – and growing We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “Prince owns the stage”
An unexpected pleasure this weekend! Found time to sit and listen to music, and to start making inroads into an ever increasing pile of magazines. Record Collector magazine, music mags (Mojo and Uncut), science mags (Focus), car magazines, New Statesman, Spectator and more. Come to the conclusion yet again I’m a magazine junkie. Reflect on […]
Kelly Hughes writes: George Duke is a multi Grammy Award winning legend. So, when I called him to get a few quick quotes for my France Joli interview (he produced her album ‘Witch Of Love’) I quickly realized I needed to milk this conversation for all it was worth. Duke is a musician’s musician with […]
In the second programme in the series, Yousra visits a ground-breaking music festival in the northern desert of Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, to meet musicians working in Sudan now. She meets the all-female band Salut Yal Bannot, who are pushing at the boundaries and addressing issues facing women in Sudan. But for […]
Alan Parsons, producer, musician and sound engineer of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, says audiophiles overpay for equipment while ignoring room acoustics. Continues HERE
Linda Keith lent a young blues player a guitar belonging to her boyfriend, Keith Richards – and the rest is history. In a rare interview, she tells her story Rock’n’roll has had many pivotal moments, but few are as clear cut as when Linda Keith, a 20-year-old British Vogue model and blues fanatic, lent a […]
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When Whitney Houston died in 2012, in a drug-related accidental drowning at age 48, the search for an explanation took on a desperate edge. Tell-all memoirs were published by her inner circle. Documentaries – 2017’s Whitney: Can I Be Me and 2018’s Whitney among them – functioned more like space probes. A Lifetime series directed […]
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Dodgy sound, dodgy bass players, hostile crowds, no crowds, flying bottles – every band has had bad gigs. Paul Lester asks musicians about the worst gigs they ever played MORE
In this week’s Music Matters Tom Service visits Reykjavik to ask whether Iceland is the most musical country in the world? With a population of just 350,000 Iceland still boasts multi-million-selling pop acts like Sigur Ros and Bjork, a world class orchestra, Oscar-winning composers, countless music festivals as well as a vibrant and world renowned […]
An unlikely supergroup, Little Village consisted of guitar wizard Ry Cooder, legendary singer-songwriters Nick Lowe and John Hiatt, and renowned drummer Jim Keltner. Their sole album appeared in February 1992, and this superb live set was taped in Boston, Massachussetts two months later, for simulcast on WBCN-FM. Capturing their instrumental virtuosity and songwriting that encompasses […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgh0y9vTgY This is exceptionally good…. especially when you look at music now… Jeez That’s the best music video I’ve ever seen because they are so great, so casual, so flawed, yet gathered up into a tight ball of perfection; and I was as young as they were when that was filmed with much more difficulty […]
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Manfred Eicher discusses his genre-defying label ECM, home of Keith Jarrett, Arvo Pärt and priceless recordings of free jazz greats. On 9 July Manfred Eicher will be 70. He does not look his age, more like an amiable ascetic with a tidy moustache, medium-length grey hair, dressed in a shirt and jeans. Not a […]
Early blues and R&B recorded in Nashville, Music City USA. Original recordings made for BULLET RECORDS, TENNESSEE and REPUBLIC RECORDS, EXCELLO and NASHBORO RECORDS, a.o. Members of Nashville’s vibrant black music scene including Cecil Gant, Wynonie Harris, B.B. King, Christine Kittrell, Don Q. Pullen, and Louis Brooks, a.m.o. are all presented here.In the accompanying book, Martin […]
Me, as part of an audience: I’m not talking here about the performer turning up on time, or indeed not turning up at all. Actually what I have in mind is more prosaic than that! I tend wherever and whenever possible to attend live music. Among many other genres such as classical, folk-rock and grunge […]