The Musical Journey of ‘House of the Rising Sun’
British Invaders Eric Burdon’s Animals made the song famous in 1964. A young Bob Dylan gave it a whack two...
Liberal Politics, Nostalgia & Rock 'n' Roll
British Invaders Eric Burdon’s Animals made the song famous in 1964. A young Bob Dylan gave it a whack two...
Mike Bloomfield’s and Al Kooper’s excellent adventure recording “Like A Rolling Stone” Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper met at the...
The band played a key role in both the blues and Southern rock’s revivals in the seventies. During my freshman...
Savoring instances of the charmed but tragic life of rock’s last guitar God. The rock world on Oct. 6 lost...
One song was actually a collaboration. Most recipients of Bruce’s songwriting had career revivals. There is a commonality to these...
This fall marks 50 years since the groundbreaking ‘Tea for the Tillerman’ hinted at Cat Stevens’ escape from pop stardom....
Guitar virtuoso Green joined Eric Clapton and John Mayall as pioneers of British blues. He had the sweetest tone I...
Oddly, multi-instrumentalist Stephen Stills’ artistry left CSN no choice but to add the ‘Y’ It was July 1968 and three...
The guitarist yearned for his own ‘psychedelic lair’ to cultivate a collaborative creative process. In the year 1969, guitarist extraordinaire...
We mourn the passing of Little Richard, a rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who died May 9. If you love anything...
At stake: $79 million in royalties for iconic song. It’s over but for wild swings of interpretation. A handful...
The dawn of the seventies saw a Beatles farewell and Motown in disarray. It Was 50 Years Ago Today… An...
The Woodstock guitar impresario has lived a charmed life. 1) An immigration success story Carlos Santana was born in Autlan...
Call it serendipity. It took the sixties for the mass market to feel the rush of rock ‘n’ roll sung...
Another tragic plane crash shortened a career that had full-blown potential. Three prominent plane crashes come to mind, involving rock...
50 years ago today, the greatest band ever called it quits while two huge ones launched. The Beatles’ Last Hurrah...
‘Marrakesh Express’ and ‘He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother’ hugged the charts in 1969. You remember the Hollies…the Merseybeat-type band...
All were released during the golden age of rock: the sixties. The essence of rock is the electric guitar. Yes,...
Revolving drummers. A chance meeting in Hamburg. The Beatles find a home at EMI. This story begins in the unlikeliest...
I feature five from rock’s greatest decades, plus some honorable mentions. Summer just opens the door and lets you out....
Aretha Franklin honored the John/Taupin songwriting duo by covering ‘Border Song’ two years later. Unlike many of his musical brethren...
With the release of the movie ‘Rocketman,’ we honor a unique and uber-successful songwriting partnership. Due to be released tomorrow...
After leading the most popular band in America, Fogerty ended up in court accused of plagiarizing himself. Bob Dylan’s Advice...
It just so happens that rockers who died at age 27 left us the most wanting. Here are the first...
Frank Zappa was the godfather of satirical rock. When he died, the genre went with him. For the record, folks:...
Bruce Springsteen, an unknown bar musician from New Jersey, plants a flag on the label of Bob Dylan. At the...
Jefferson Airplane’s departure from its psychedelic roots was not a charted course. Jefferson Airplane’s musical prominence in the psychedelic sixties ...
The label switch came with a cast of characters: Ahmet Ertegun, Marshall Chess and Prince Rupert Loewenstein. The first meeting...
Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler’s breakthrough: Let Aretha be herself. As the old saying goes, there are no guarantees in...
Joel on long-time producer Phil Ramone: “He was the king.” Among legacy rock stars and bands still performing, Billy Joel...
“I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy.” Seven enduring essentials about Joni Mitchell. In a respite from the...
Harry Nilsson, an unsung singer-songwriter, is perhaps better known for the company he kept. Prologue At a 1968 press conference...
Groundbreaking albums linked music to social justice movements. Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changing’ Bob Dylan & Woody Guthrie...
Despite rugged conditions, The Beatles gave it a shot. Abbey Road would follow. It started out as a solution to...
1968 marked the year when the Beatles topped the charts with a seven minute single, Hendrix exquisitely covered Bob Dylan...
The vision of a shy Indian schoolboy named Bulsara became a pop masterpiece. Here is Queen’s official video of the...
The Beatles created a pop masterpiece from scratch…in one month’s time. You don’t know us if you don’t know Rubber...
‘The Swampers’ integrated soul, rock and the blues to become sought-after, elite instrumentalists Specialty musicians in certain towns and cities...
Is Bruce’s ‘Verified Fan’ a scalper-beater, or a windfall for Ticketmaster? We’ve seen this movie before. So you want to...
The late hit-maker was once a part of an elite group of LA session musicians We mourn the passage of...
Beatle Paul lost the rights to his song catalogue twice, actually. Paul McCartney has reached a settlement with Sony/ATV Music Publishing...
After Hitting It Big with Eliminator, the Eighties Caught Up With Them I remember so well that ZZ Top concert in Dayton,...
Even a Famed Dalliance with Blues Great John Lee Hooker Couldn’t Prevent the Tragic Deaths of Their Star Performers It...
A wistful view of rock’s greatness from someone who came of age with the Beatles First of all, some...
Mutual Admiration Made Them Pivot to Damage Control At the center of it all was a 1974 hit song by Southern...
The Rock Hall of Fame Seems to Be in No Hurry to Find a Place for Prog Rock Editor’s update:...
How a Lysergic Moment in Time Helped Create Rock’s Ultimate Jam Band People who came of age in the mid-...
The song was crafted to bring Beatles fans back to where it all began. Here is one version of The...
On Recording the Greatest Record Album of All-Time The Beatles album Revolver, forever in the shadow of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts...
Christine McVie Is the Essential Link Between Old and New Indisputably, the band is named for its founding rhythm section: Mick Fleetwood...
Only a Matter of Time Before Spinners Join ‘Soul-Mates’ in Rock Hall of Fame It would be quite natural to assume...
It Took the Likes of Eric Clapton to Break the Tension Most rock fans have a cheerful attachment to the...
Did Woodstock Harden The Who’s Frontman? ‘We Won’t Get Fooled Again’ Tops List of Favorite Conservative Songs Peter Townshend’s legendary rise...
Amazingly, The Beatles Became Klein’s Second Helping By Andrew Goutman After countless lawsuits, verdicts and settlements (26 in all counting...
The Yardbirds, 1963-68 By Andrew Goutman Among true rock fans, the designation “greatest guitar player ever” is almost a...
By Andrew Goutman In the recovery business, moving to another location to escape a substance addiction is called a “geographic...
By Andrew Goutman You must remember that great song from 1994…that Sheryl Crow ditty that won her two Grammys for Record...