King Bee was the first Muddy Waters’ album I ever heard, which strangely would prove to be the great blues man’s final studio recording. King Bee was the third in a series of records that Waters recorded with protégé Johnny Winter in the late 1970s. The fruitful collaboration brought Winter home to the blues and [...]
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The Crimson Jazz Trio’s second album, King Crimson Songbook Volume 2, represents a step forward and a terrible setback at once. Jazz Trio members pianist Jody Nardone, bassist Tim Landers and drummer Ian Wallace recorded the first Crimson Songbook in the spring of 2005, and I had the opportunity to speak with Wallace about Volume [...]
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“Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars/Oak tree you’re in my way.” — From Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell” There’s a tangible eeriness that pervades Skynyrd’s Street Survivors that goes beyond the infamous “band in flames” cover. The album that gave Ronnie Van Zant back his “bullets” also served as his swan song. It’s a document of [...]
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It’s easy to take Bad Company for granted as another ‘70s musical dinosaur destined for perpetual play on classic-rock radio. But give their 1974 debut another spin in its entirety, and Bad Co.’s place in rock becomes clearer. Certainly Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant, not one to be bamboozled, saw the band’s possibilities and signed [...]
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