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By the time John Mellencamp released October 1991’s “Whenever We Wanted” , containing the hits “Get a Leg Up” and “Again Tonight”, his record-making not only made him one of the Eighties’ most popular singer/ songwriters, he had already influenced the sound of his peers…twice. John Mellencamp is my guest In the Studio.
It had been such a “long time”, almost seven years, since the band Boston had released a new album and toured that when Tom Scholz, Brad Delp, and Company returned to the concert stage headlining the 1987 Texxas Jam in front of 70,000 in the Dallas Cotton Bowl, it was international news. It also was […]
August 26, 1991 I had the great honor and pleasure of co-hosting the world premiere radio broadcast with Bob Seger of “The Fire Inside”. His fourteenth (!) studio album, it came a long five years after Seger and the Silver Bullet Band’s “Like a Rock”, the Detroit rocker’s fifth multi-million seller in a row.
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 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 and DVD as MTV […]
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 Posies song […]