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Rhino Black History Month: Donny Hathaway (Article)
Thursday, February 13, 2014
A few days ago, we paid tribute to Roberta Flack. Today, we’re shining the spotlight on her most successful duet partner. The most depressing difference between them: his story has an ending, one which came far too soon and wasn’t nearly as happy as it should’ve been. Born in Chicago on October 1, 1945, Donny Hathaway was already on the road to his career in music by the age of three, when he started singing in the church choir with his gospel-singing grandmother, Martha Pitts. In short order, Hathaway began to accompany his grandmother on tour, billed as “Donny Pitts, the Nation’s Youngest
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Julian Lennon Sticks Around (Article)
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
When Julian Lennon, the eldest son of the late John Lennon, decided to embark on a recording career of his own a few years after his father’s death, it’s hard to gauge exactly how high people’s expectations were, but there’s no question that people were curious about the possibilities. It only required a cursory glance at a photograph of Julian to spot the physical resemblance he shared with John, but would they share a vocal one as well? As it turns out, of course, they most certainly did have similar singing voices, and it’s fair to say that those similarities probably inspired a few still
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Aquarium Drunkard Presents: The American (Article)
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Johnny Cash. While the name has always been powerful, in 2014 it rings out as almost mythic. In the eleven years since his death, at the age of 71 in 2003, Cash's legend has only grown. And not just among the Americana set. Thanks in part to the Joaquin Phoenix driven smash, Walk The Line (2005), Johnny Cash literally became larger than life appearing on movie screens globally, grossin $186,438,883 worldwide. But it almost didn't turn out this way. In the early 90s, Cash was performing to quarter capacity shows in sleepy Branson, MO. And then he met producer Rick Rubin. The pair's first
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Hey, Hey It's The Monkees Convention 2014! (Article)
Friday, February 7, 2014
Between Rhino Handmade reissuing The Monkees Present and Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork taking the stage together and touring throughout July and August, the summer of 2013 provided Monkees fans a couple of pretty great months. After that, though, the guys went their separate ways – maybe you caught Mr. Nesmith on his solo tour a few months back – so it’s been pretty quiet on the Monkees front. If you’re in desperate need of a fix, then you’d better check your calendar and see what you’ve got going on between March 14 – 16 that you’re going to have to cancel, because that’s when
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Rhino #1s: Led Zeppelin II (Article)
Friday, February 7, 2014
The release of Led Zeppelin’s 1969 self-titled debut album may been a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal ( that’s what the All Music Guide says, anyway), but it was the band’s second album – the appropriately-titled Led Zeppelin II – that truly signaled their arrival as a force to be reckoned with on the charts. 44 years ago today, Led Zeppelin II climbed to the #1 position on the UK Albums Chart, making it the first – but in no way the last – of their albums to achieve such a feat. It also spent seven weeks at #1 in the States, knocking the Beatles’ Abbey
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Rhino Black History Month: Aretha Franklin (Article)
Thursday, February 6, 2014
There may be a few contenders for the title of Queen of Soul through the annals of music, but if there’s one name that’s always going to come up in everyone’s short list, it’s Aretha Franklin. Born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 25, 1942, Aretha’s father, C.L. Franklin, was a minister, thereby putting her in close proximity to choirs literally from the day she was born, but his success as a sermonizer earned him a certain degree of celebrity, resulting in close encounters with such gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson and James Cleveland, more secular performers like Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson
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Wish You Were Here, Carl Wilson (Article)
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Today marks 16 years since Beach Boys guitarist and vocalist Carl Wilson, the man who sang lead on Paul McCartney’s favorite song of all time (that’d be “God Only Knows,” of course), went silent. There’s no denying that Dennis Wilson’s death in 1983 hit Beach Boys fans hard – not only did he die, but Dennis was the only real surfer in the band, and he drowned, for God’s sake – but the loss of Carl, the realization that his sweet, haunting voice was gone for good…well, that’s a tough pill to swallow even now. Carl’s vocal legacy extended well beyond the Beach Boys: over the years, he
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Happy Anniversary, Boys Don’t Cry! (Article)
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
It’s probably just coincidence, but we can’t help but notice that the week that’s brought the news that the Cure will soon be releasing a new album – reportedly to be entitled 4:14 Scream, a nod to the fact that it was recorded during the same sessions as their last album, 2008’s 4:13 Dream – just so happens to be the same week when, in 1980, the band’s compilation album Boys Don’t Cry first hit record store shelves in the UK. For the longest time, Boys Don’t Cry was perceived as the Cure’s debut album in the US, owing to the fact that their real debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, didn’t
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Depeche Mode on 180-Gram Vinyl? Time for a (Black) Celebration! (Article)
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
As you may have seen on Friday, we’re going to be putting out the entire Depeche Mode back catalog on 180-gram vinyl throughout the winter and spring. Just in case you missed the memo, though, we wanted to make sure you knew that the roll-out process was officially kicked off yesterday with an in-no-way shabby quartet of albums: Some Great Reward (1984), Black Celebration (1986), Music for the Masses (1987), and Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993). Not that we wouldn’t recommend getting them all, but if you had to pick just one of ‘em…well, honestly, it’s pretty tough to narrow down the best of
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Rhino Black History Month: Otis Redding (Article)
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
There are all too many tales of tragedy in the annals of music history about performers that died too soon, but when it comes to unfulfilled possibilities and thoughts of what might’ve been, the death of Otis Redding never fails to elicit a sigh. Born in Dawson, Georgia, on September 9, 1941, Redding was already a well-seasoned performer by the time he signed to Stax subsidiary label Volt Records in 1962, and it didn’t take long for him to demonstrate his gift for both singing and songwriting to the masses, taking 21 songs into the US R&B charts in only five years. Redding also had a gift for
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