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As we prepare to honor Southern Rock pioneers Lynyrd Skynyrd on the fiftieth anniversary of Nuthin’ Fancy next week, here is an example of their long shadow cast two decades later with an uncanny cover of that album’s “On the Hunt” by Carolina band Cry of Love. This was performed in SONY Studio in New […]
With a band named after a Jimi Hendrix album, and their debut album Brother in 1993 sounding like Free meets Lynyrd Skynyrd, how could I not love this Carolina band? Great guys too in Cry of Love , including the trueheart guitarist Audley Freed who grew up idolizing Southern Rock icons Allen Collins and Duane […]
Cream’s breakthrough album “Disraeli Gears” only nine months earlier tee’d up the English/Scottish trio’s June 1968 third release, “Wheels of Fire”, for some impressive numbers. It went almost immediately to #3 sales in the UK and a bonafide #1 in the US, becoming the first double album to sell over a million copies. Eric Clapton & the late Jack Bruce are my guests.
Former singer/ songwriter co-founder Donnie Van Zant and original 38 Special lead guitarist Jeff Carlisi recall band headquarters in an abandoned auto parts garage in a swamp to work up songs, all paying dues that would result in their fifth album,”Special Forces”, selling multi-platinum in May 1982. Donnie Van Zant & Jeff Carlisi recall “Caught Up in You”,”You Keep Running Away”,”Back Door Stranger”, & “Chain Lightning” In the Studio.
The original Allman Brothers Band had to be seen and heard live to be fully appreciated, and in 1971 the band headlined four shows over two nights on March 13-14 at the Fillmore East that were recorded. My guests remember it well: one of two original guitarists, Dickey Betts, & the late great Gregg Allman.
“It took me twelve years to make that album Live Bullet ,” Bob Seger solemnly emphasizes to me in this classic rock interview from Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band in April 1976. This may be the only six million-seller in history which failed to make the Top Thirty in sales when initially released.
The fact that the Doobie Brothers reinvented themselves for their March 1976 album “Takin’ It to the Streets” is quite widely known, but the reasons for the musical shift, and the manner in which they made it work so successfully, is a fascinating back-story worthy of an HBO mini-series.. On the album’s 45th anniversary, Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons, & Michael McDonald are all here In the Studio to recall how it really went down.
Southern Rock giant Charlie Daniels has died at age 83.
“He was our guy,” Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington told me about songwriter J.J.Cale in my December 2000 interview,” kinda our ‘go to’ guy for songs back then.” For over four decades Cale, the Tulsa-based songwriter who passed away overnight at the age of 74, was the ‘go to’ guy for some of rock’n’roll’s biggest […]
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