Traffic- Far from Home 25th Anniversary- Steve Winwood, the late Jim Capaldi
Twenty-five years ago it was my great honor to host the first new Traffic album in twenty years, Far from Home by Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi…
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Traffic-Low Spark of High Heeled Boys-Steve Winwood,the late Jim Capaldi
/in Medium RareNot always considered a Progressive Rock band, nevertheless the title song to Traffic‘s most popular album, November 1971’s Low Spark of High Heeled Boys , fits easily high atop any list of the most popular and creative songs of the Progressive Rock era. Yet that song and the Low Spark… album in general are considerably […]
Traffic- John Barleycorn Must Die-Steve Winwood,the late Jim Capaldi
/in Medium RareContrary to what their publicists would have you believe, bands rarely break up over”musical differences”. Of course the band members must share enough musical common ground to establish and sustain a creative dialogue, but equally importantly it is crucial that the personalities in a band such as England’s Traffic must complement one another, not unlike […]
Crosby, Stills, and Nash 50th Anniversary- David, Stephen, Graham
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsDavid Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash In the Studio for the 50th anniversary of their debut!
Jimi Hendrix Experience- Electric Ladyland 50th Anniversary pt1
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsBy Spring 1968 Jimi Hendrix had returned triumphantly to the US from London after fifteen months, having electrified the rock world with two smash albums, the revolutionary debut Are You Experienced? and Axis: Bold as Love. It was all being organized by veteran English musician Chas Chandler of The Animals who had given up pop […]
30 Years Ago In the Studio: Bryan Adams 10-3-88
/in Medium RareAfter a whirlwind Seattle Saturday in September 1988 with a noon interview session with Heart’s Ann Wilson, followed by hamburgers on Mercer Island with Steve Miller for dinner, now I was witness to a spectacular Pacific sunset as I barreled up the scenic coast into British Columbia Canada for a rendezvous in Vancouver with Bryan […]
Steve Winwood – Why Can’t We Live Together?
/in Live TracksBack in 1972 while working at my first radio station in Ohio, I got a lesson in soul music from Timmy Thomas and the single “Why Can’t We Live Together?“, and apparently an ocean away Steve Winwood, ex-Spencer Davis Group wunderkind, Traffic cop, and Blind Faith refugee, was taking the same musical correspondence course. What […]
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon 45th Anniversary- David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock Interviews…the forty-fifth anniversary of the progressive rock masterpiece by Pink Floyd which not even “Time” can “Eclipse”: The Dark Side of the Moon !
George Harrison- Cloud Nine 30th anniversary
/in Beard's Blog, Classic Rock InterviewsTo borrow from the Rob Reiner/Billy Crystal/Meg Ryan hit movie of the day When Harry Met Sally, George Harrison’s Cloud Nine comeback album thirty years ago could alternately be titled “When Harri(son) Met Lynne”. By 1987, Jeff Lynne had ceased to make neo-Beatles-influenced music with Electric Light Orchestra, while Harrison simply had stopped making music, […]
Steve Winwood- Back in the High Life
/in Classic Rock InterviewsBy his mid-twenties, Steve Winwood already may have been on a hall of fame career pace, singing and playing hits as a mere teenager with the Spencer Davis Group (“Gimme Some Lovin’ “,” I’m a Man”), Traffic, and Blind Faith. Yet Winwood told me in this classic rock interview that a 1972 bout with peritonitis […]