Hailing from the tiny Isle of Man, Back Door Slam are a three-piece outfit making big waves on this side of the Atlantic. Taking musical cues from past greats such as John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Albert King and Rory Gallagher, and in turn the masters who inspired them, Back Door Slam put their powerful spin [...]
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Frank Marino’s first solo album after Mahogany Rush is a little-known effort titled The Power Of Rock And Roll. Released in 1981, it came packaged in a cartoonish cover ( I kind of like it), but the music is anything but. Instead, this 12-inch platter is full of Marino’s incendiary playing and gruffest vocals. There’s [...]
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If you looked at the passports of the members of Supersister in 1970, it would declare them citizens of the Netherlands. The glorious music they made on Present From Nancy and subsequent recordings, however, was seemingly from another planet. This four piece outfit – Robert Jan Stips (keyboards), Sacha van Geest (flute), Ron van Eck [...]
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A real gem from Badfinger. Not a huge hit, but my favorite song from them. Great, raw performance.
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I forgot how great this album was until I gave it a listen over the weekend. Jelly Jam? You ask? A power trio for the 21st Century, composed of guitarist/vocalist Ty Tabor (King’s X), bassist John Myung (Dream Theater) and drummer Rod Morgenstein (Dixie Dregs). This threesome came together for two albums (still waiting for [...]
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Erik Mongrain is a 28-year-old Montreal-based musician who, like his major influence Michael Hedges, has taken the guitar beyond the traditional flat- or fingerpicking realm and into a world where the composition dictates the tuning and technique. Mongrain plays with a combination of taps, slaps, thumps, harmonics, and picking, and uses a variety of unusual [...]
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Jade Warrior are one of those bands that too few people have heard. Part of it stems from their compact discs coming into print for a short time only, eventually driving up prices on the secondary market beyond what most music fans were willing to pay. And they were never really part of the collective [...]
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Neil Young is one of the greatest and most prolific rock songwriters of the 20th century. His string of albums in the late ’60s through the 1970s, in particular, are loaded with so many fantastic songs and “deep cuts” that it’s something of a misnomer to call any of Young’s tunes “lost.” Nevertheless, I’ve picked [...]
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Keyboardist Danny Brill’s story parallels so many other musicians’: He began playing piano as a child but would find his musical inspiration during his college days, catching the top bands of the day. Seeing one act particularly – Emerson, Lake & Palmer – greatly influenced the direction of Brill’s music then…and now. After playing in [...]
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The roots of the blues extend deep, deep into the soil of the Mississippi Delta, Texas, the Piedmont and up to Chicago. The influence of the blues on American music is inestimable, and the greatest blues artists and their classic recordings are as timeless as the blues itself. Here are 50 of the most influential [...]
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