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It would be fascinating to watch the latest Oscar-nominated remake of A Star is Born with Dallas-based Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, whose 1988 debut Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars was THE Cinderella best-seller that Fall and into 1989, peaking at #4 on the Billboard album chart and selling over a million copies largely on […]
Paul McCartney joins me In the Studio here in part two of the Beatles’ “White Album” 55th anniversary to explore the songs “Birthday”, Lennon’s “Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey”, Paul’s “Mother Nature’s Son”, one of three versions of “Revolution”, the campy pally band arrangement on “Honey Pie”, Lennon’s “Cry Baby Cry”, and the real inspiration behind the song which figured into the notorious Charles Manson multiple murder case,”Helter Skelter”.
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)
This song “I Got You” was done in 1980 by New Zealand band Split Enz, who started their career by dressing in such bizarre garish make-up that would make KISS look like Lady Gaga. Split Enz was led by Tim Finn and younger brother Neil, who went on to Australia and eventually Los Angeles as […]
Ten years after redefining what the guitar composer/ performer could be with 1987’s Surfing with the Alien, Joe Satriani had come to a crossroads in his career and knew that he needed a second act. He delivered in a big way in 1998 with Crystal Planet, and I’ll let AllMusic.com’s Stephen Thomas Erlewine make my […]
We are very sad to report that original Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King, the only original member who did not grow up in Jacksonville Florida but was a Southern Californian they met when he was in the Strawberry Alarm Clock, died at his home in Nashville August 22. Ed King was 68 and had been […]
People that have not been in Billy Joel’s corner since the days of The Hassles and Cold Spring Harbor and Piano Man, the latter album released November 1973, truly cannot appreciate the depth of affection millions feel for this guy. But those lucky few who packed Spark’s Saloon to the rafters in Huntington out on […]
The tributes and testaments started even before official word was issued that Aretha Franklin had passed away. Knowing that I have interviewed so many of the greatest musicians of the last half century, more than one news outlet contacted me looking for a possible recorded interview that they could excerpt, but I never had the […]
After several alarming live tv meltdowns exposed widespread lip-synching to recorded tracks, there was a debate raging among rock cognoscenti twenty years ago about whether the majority of Nineties acts who were selling on the charts could actually PLAY or not. So it was a real pleasure to witness Soul Asylum tee one up live […]
It is the fifth anniversary of Deep Purple’s impressive, muscular “comeback” album “Now What?!” April 26, 2013, and DP’s Roger Glover joins Redbeard In the Studio.