Eleven More Bass Players Who Belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
"You ask the average person what a bass is, or what a bass sounds like, and most of the time, they don't know. But remove the bass from any piece of music and suddenly it becomes the largest missing piece in the world! Whoa, fifty percent of
Robbie Robertson Gives Us His Testimony
Back in May 1978, I walked into the cool, dark, Rialto Theater in Atlanta, not knowing exactly what to expect. We arrived a little late, so the film had already begun; the Band had just kicked off “It Makes No Difference,” with Rick Danko’s plaintive vocals, Garth Hudson'
Generations Come Full Circle at Gram Parsons Birthday Bash (With Kai Clark Interview)
Funny how the circle turns around
You think your lost and then you're found again
Though you always look for what you know
Each time around it's something new again
-- Gene Clark, "Full Circle"
Gene Clark wrote those words forty-five years ago. His
Leon Russell's Shining Star
I will always remember sitting in the movie theater as a kid watching Leon Russell steal the show during The Concert For Bangladesh, wondering who and what this mystical force was. It was no small feat since he was a piano player on a stage that included George Harrison, Bob
Death of a Ladies' Man: Time Defies Leonard Cohen
There was that night when Phil Spector had a bottle of Manischewitz in one hand and a gun in the other. He put his arm around Leonard Cohen’s shoulder and leaned in, pointing the gun into his neck and said, “Leonard, I love you.”
Cohen, who had taken an
Oh, Shenandoah: Down the Valley with Bob Dylan in Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke is a beautiful small city cupped by the Blue Ridge Mountains, resting on the banks of the Roanoke River in the Roanoke Valley, which is at the southern tip of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. These places take their name from the Native American tribe living in what is