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Jan 30, 2024 · THE INDEPENDENT: Mick Fleetwood has shared the eulogy he wrote for Christine McVie, following her memorial service that took place on Monday (9 January). The service saw the remaining band members and Fleetwood Mac’s “extended family” gather to celebrate McVie, who died on 30 November after a “short illness”. On 12 January, Fleetwood posted to […]
Mar 3, 2024 · STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE / allmusic.com Look Long, the title of Indigo Girls' 15th album, appears to be an imperative to their audience and a creative challenge to themselves -- an attempt to look beyond the internal and familiar. Reuniting with producer John Reynolds, who previously produced the duo's 1999 LP Come On Now Social, Indigo […]
Dec 10, 2022 · We are told: The complete BBC recordings 1965-1968. Includes extensive linernotes with comments by Chris Farlowe. Chris Farlowe was one of the hottest young British artists to emerge from the Sixties R&B club scene, much admired by Tom Jones and Mick Jagger. Farlowe's band the Thunderbirds included top class musicians, notably guitarist Albert Lee and […]
Mar 5, 2024 · isa’s Piazza dei Miracoli, also known as the Piazza del Duomo, contains the Cathedral, the Baptistry, the Campanile (aka the Leaning Tower) – and the Camposanto Monumentale. Among its murals is an impressive fresco entitled Il trionfo della Morte: ‘The Triumph of Death’. Once attributed to Orcagna, nowadays to Buonamico Buffalmacco or, by some scholars, […]
Dec 16, 2022 · ‘I hope they don’t think we’re a rock and roll outfit,’ Mick Jagger declared to Jazz News in 1962. He was speaking to – and for – a growing number of R&B and trad jazz aficionados among the more discerning British youth who were seeking musical authenticity and distancing themselves from the teenybop crowd, thanks to music imported by their elders in the folk movement.
Mar 19, 2022 · A couple years after cutting their eponymous first album in 1964, chock full of covers of blues and rhythm and blues songs by black artists including a buzz-toned slice of anthropomorphism about our favourite honey-making insect, Jagger told Rolling Stone magazine: “You could say that we did blues to turn people on, but why they would be turned on by us is unbelievably stupid.
Jan 31, 2024 · allmusic.com / Fred Thomas. While three Grateful Dead members released solo outings in 1972, Bob Weir's Ace was ostensibly a solo album, with massive contributions from his bandmates, songs the Dead had been playing live or would soon incorporate into their repertoire, and a mellow Americana sound not too far removed from the tones Weir's main band had been exploring on breakthrough albums like American Beauty.
Mar 3, 2022 · The South London-based Killing Floor was formed by lead guitarist Mick Clarke and vocalist/harmonica player Bill Thorndycraft. During the British blues boom of 1968-1969, they decided to form a blues band, recruiting prospective members from the classified pages of Melody Maker. Joining them were piano player Lou Martin, bassist Stuart MacDonald, and drummer Bazz Smith. Taking […]
