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During our interview, Steve Miller reminded me that when “Fly Like an Eagle” came out in 1976, it contained such a wealth of great songs of varying styles, thoughtfully sequenced seamlessly, that I and my FM radio deejay brethren used to play entire sides of it (back when albums had sides) on the radio,uninterrupted…(more)
In April 1982 Ozzy Osbourne honored an agreement to broadcast his sold-out concert live nationwide from the Memphis Mid-South Coliseum, in spite of the fact that his guitarist Randy Rhoads, his band seamstress, and his tour bus driver had all died in a single-engine plane crash about six weeks earlier. Ozzy, who had not spoken […]
After the release of the Ghost of Tom Joad album , which invokes the name of the starving Depression-era Okie in the Grapes of Wrath , Bruce Springsteen did some selected dates without the “E” Street Band . More than a decade after the Republican Party appropriated the chorus from his song “Born in the USA” for President Ronald Reagan’s re-election campaign , Springsteen was still rankled by the usage out of context minus the verses . ..(more)
One of the nicest musical surprises of 1992 had to be the Arcangels album, which paired dual singer/songwriter/guitarist frontmen Charlie Sexton and Doyle Bramhall II with Hall of Fame inductees Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble rhythm section. Since that album debut there have been several one-off reunion shows, and even […]
Ronnie Van Zant had a notorious reputation in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Jacksonville Florida hometown as a street fighting, straight razor-toting brawler. As undisputed band leader, Ronnie dealt out intraband discipline in a similar manner , according to lead guitarist the late Ed King here “In the Studio”…
“Essential “. One thing that has never been questioned about Southern Rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd is their unassailable authenticity. My guests guitarists are the dearly missed Gary Rossington and the late Ed King, part one.
Austin Texas-based phenomenal guitarist/composer/singer Eric Johnson released Europe Live fourteen track collection June 2014. Though well known as a studio perfectionist, nevertheless it was on stage in the late 1970s to mid 1980s where Eric Johnson first made his reputation as a supremely gifted guitarist well before his debut album Tones was released in 1986, […]
Not even the Rubberneck 25th anniversary releases, with excellent remastered sound and bonus tracks on vinyl and CD, of Ft. Worth band The Toadies contains this legendary New Years Eve 1995-96 performance of “Possum Kingdom”, mixed live to broadcast on Q102 that night by Doug Hall, no overdubs or punch-ins, straight off the stage at […]
“Born in Mississippi in the dust of a cotton patch Raised up by a rattlesnake and that’s a natural fact… They all talk about me, they don’t understand They don’t know the power of a Mississippi hoodoo man…”-Kent Dykes, “Mississippi Hoodoo Man” While every biography I’ve read of the band Omar and the Howlers rightly […]
Two intrepid Scots, lead singer/guitarist Justin Currie and vocalist/ accordion player Iain Harvie of the Glasgow band del Amitri, showed up one blazing hot Friday afternoon to play out on the patio in upper 90s temp during my Friday afternoon remote broadcast in suburban Dallas in May 1990. Nary a word of complaint to us […]