Rock Hall Snubs: Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull Hall of Fame? Years eligible: 27. Nominations: NONE
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Jethro Tull Hall of Fame? Years eligible: 27. Nominations: NONE
In 1978 my pick for album of the year was Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town,which no doubt topped many such lists that year.Second by a gnat’s eyelash on my list,however,was Blue Valentine by Tom Waits,an album which I can cherish easily for another thirty years…(more)
Like David Bowie did five years before and Sting would repeat five years later, Dire Straits’ October 1980 third release “Making Movies” is Mark Knopfler’s unabashedly “Big Apple” album through the eyes of an Englishman in New York who had grown up an ocean away on Hemingway, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan.
Ian Anderson In the Studio for the brilliant 21st century sequel to Jethro Tull’s “Thick As a Brick”.
Maybe one of the reasons that Bruce Springsteen scored his first #1-seller in 1980 for the double album The River is because he had been road-testing some of the material in concert for years, such as this performance of “Independence Day”in 1978.
We have a unique and fascinating appearance In the Studio by The Scorpions to spotlight their 35th anniversary of their biggest album Love at First Sting , featuring the song “Big City Nights” which appeared on that album originally but which translated surprisingly well to their September 2013 unplugged performance in Athens Greece captured on CD […]
The main songwriters/singers/guitarists of Bellingham WA band The Posies, Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, spent so much time in Memphis as neo- Big Star members that I think of them as honorary members of that incredibly rich music community. I was pleased when Auer and Stringfellow performed this live acoustic version of the song “Dream […]
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Louisiana slide guitarist & singer Sonny Landreth brought his guitar & a little tweed amp about the size of a small suitcase into the Mexican restaurant where I was broadcasting my weekly Friday afternoon Q102 Dallas radio show back in 1995 . Sonny proceeded to play “Back to Bayou Teche” from his album South of I-10
In the Studio classic rock interview is with Steve Miller.