Sixteen years after they climbed to the top of the British chart with a 1963 remake of the Drifters “Sweets for My Sweet,” and more than a decade after they’d last cracked the Top 40 with a remake of the […]
Sixteen years after they climbed to the top of the British chart with a 1963 remake of the Drifters “Sweets for My Sweet,” and more than a decade after they’d last cracked the Top 40 with a remake of the […]
Peter Case has had a music career that few of his contemporaries can match. Breaking in with Jack Lee and Paul Collins as the Nerves, no one would have guessed it was the beginning of a musical road that’s now […]
When talk turns to the late 70s power-pop outfit Big Star, the focus tends to be on cofounder Alex Chilton, the idiosyncratic singer/songwriter who contributed to all its great early albums and who in a previous life sang lead on […]
Though never on a par with the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean had their moments. This wasn’t one of them. In fact, my first reaction when I heard Filet of Soul Redux echoed the famous opening line of Greil Marcus’s […]
Reunions are often laden with compromise in service of nostalgia. But three decades after their last performance, this 2004 reunion of the original quartet makes no concession to the passage of time, changing tastes in popular music, nor the yearning […]
Arthur Alexander’s music career was as heartbreaking as were his songs. A writer of indelible sorrow, he sang with a depth that seemed to flow directly out of his aching soul. He reached the Top 40 with “You Better Move […]
You don’t have to spend much time with the Raspberries’ quartet of early 70s albums before you start wondering why the group never established a major presence on the pop charts. I could advance assorted theories about that, but what […]
After a gap in the first half of the ‘70s, alto saxophonist and West Coast Jazz icon Art Pepper returned to recording. By decade’s end he was under contract with Galaxy, and when a small Japanese label came calling, he […]
Put Charley Pride and Percy Sledge in a sack. Shake well. Pour out, stand back, and marvel. That’s an unofficial account of Arthur Alexander’s entrance into this world, unverified but plausible. Alexander’s laid-back country soul blended the sound of Price […]
Despite his extensive drug-related jail time, Pepper was a prodigious and surprisingly consistent recording artist. The late-50s and early-60s were particularly fruitful years, minting classics that include 1957’s Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section and 1959’s Art Pepper + Eleven. […]
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