Glen Campbell & ‘The Wrecking Crew’
The late hit-maker was once a part of an elite group of LA session musicians We mourn the passage of...
Category: Rock ‘n’ Roll
The Allman Brothers Made Blues a Part of Southern Rock’s Lineage
Ignoring Calls to Relocate to NY or LA, the Allman Brothers Planted a Flag in Macon, Georgia, Creating Ground Zero...
ZZ Top: Two Beards and a Drummer named Beard Wrote the Story of Texas Boogie
After Hitting It Big with Eliminator, the Eighties Caught Up With Them I remember so well that ZZ Top concert in Dayton,...
Canned Heat: Sex, Drugs & The Blues
Even a Famed Dalliance with Blues Great John Lee Hooker Couldn’t Prevent the Tragic Deaths of Their Star Performers It...
My List of 20 Greatest Songs of the Rock Era
‘Favorite’ or ‘Best’? How About Both? When I settled on the topic of this post, I had thought that composing...
Paul Simon Keeps Making Records
The Great Ones Keep Going After All These Years At 75, Paul Simon’s recording prowess has never strayed far from...
Neil Young & Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Friendliest of Feuds
Mutual Admiration Made Them Pivot to Damage Control At the center of it all was a 1974 hit song by Southern...
‘Progressive Rock’ – A Wayward Link in Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Saga?
The Rock Hall of Fame Seems to Be in No Hurry to Find a Place for Prog Rock I came...
Jerry Garcia, Owsley & Mountain Girl
How a Lysergic Moment in Time Helped Create Rock’s Ultimate Jam Band People who came of age in the mid-...
Abbey Road’s ‘The End’ – A Beatles’ Farewell
The Beatles Crafted the Song to Remind Fans of Their Roots Editor’s Note – This is Part Three of a Beatles trilogy...
Revolver: The Beatles At Their Collaborative and Creative Best
On Recording the Greatest Record Album of All-Time The Beatles album Revolver, forever in the shadow of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts...
Fleetwood Mac’s Tour Stirs Memories of the Original Blues Version
Christine McVie Is the Essential Link Between Old and New Indisputably, the band is named for its founding rhythm section: Mick Fleetwood...
Helping Bob Dylan Create His Masterpiece
Mike Bloomfield’s & Al Kooper’s Excellent Adventure Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper met at the dawn of Bob Dylan’s conversion to...
Spinners Thrived After Motown Exit
Only a Matter of Time Before Spinners Join ‘Soul-Mates’ in Rock Hall of Fame It would be quite natural to assume...
The Beatles’ ‘White Album’: Brilliance Overcame Adversity
It Took the Likes of Eric Clapton to Break the Tension Most rock fans have a cheerful attachment to the...
Pete Townshend’s Political Odyssey
Did Woodstock Harden The Who’s Frontman? ‘We Won’t Get Fooled Again’ Tops List of Favorite Conservative Songs Peter Townshend’s legendary rise...
The Legendary Battle Between the Rolling Stones and Their Notorious Manager, Allen Klein
Amazingly, The Beatles Became Klein’s Second Helping By Andrew Goutman After countless lawsuits, verdicts and settlements (26 in all counting...
One Band. The Three Greatest Guitars in Rock History.
The Yardbirds, 1963-68 By Andrew Goutman Among true rock fans, the designation “greatest guitar player ever” is almost a...
Ranking the Unrealized Accomplishments of Departed Rock Stars
Who among rock’s departed left us most wanting? (Hint: Number 1’s name is the title of a Weezer song) (November...
We Still Dig the Harmony
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG We Still Dig the Harmony By Andrew Goutman (September 5, 2014) A friend of mine...
JT’s Bite of the Apple
By Andrew Goutman In the recovery business, moving to another location to escape a substance addiction is called a “geographic...
Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady
By Andrew Goutman The Electric Lady studio was Jimi Hendrix’s vision of recording utopia…”a “psychedelic lair, with curved walls, multicolored lights...
Sheryl Crow’s Hit Song, “All I Wanna Do,” Gives Poet Wyn Cooper His 15 Minutes
By Andrew Goutman You must remember that great song from 1994…that Sheryl Crow ditty that won her two Grammys for Record...
