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To hear J. Geils Band front man Peter Wolf’s scat-jive intro to “Whammer Jammer” on 1972’s FULL HOUSE is to hear a transmission from another, much funkier planet — a skiggity-strange liggity-language that kiggity-kicks off another, longer miggity-missive from one...

19 years ago today, the world lost one of the great R&B singers and songwriters: Curtis Mayfield, the man responsible for penning such classic tunes as “Gypsy Woman,” “It’s All Right,” “Keep On Pushin’” and “People Get Ready” for The...

39 years ago today, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, Chicago, and J.D. Souther took the stage of the San Diego Sports Arena to stump for Ronstadt’s then-beau, Jerry Brown. It was one of the great pop-meets-politics romances of the century –...

Today we celebrate the birthday of one of the most legendary female R&B singers of the 20 th century: Carla Thomas, who came by her talent honestly – her dad was Rufus Thomas – and then kicked it up a...

52 years ago this month, Wilson Pickett – or Wicked Pickett, if you prefer – did something which always thrills the telephone company to no end: he recorded a song which featured a phone number as its title. As everyone...

As of this writing, we’re less than two weeks away from the end of 2018, and this means we’ve reached the end of a year’s worth of honoring the legacy of the late Otis Redding, including… An Otis Redding tribute...

32 years ago this week, The Housemartins – otherwise known as the fourth best band in Hull – secured the lone #1 UK single of their career with, of all things, an a cappella cover of a single by a...

Today we celebrate the birthday of a gentleman named Christopher Hamill, but if the name doesn’t mean anything to you offhand, try rearranging the letters of his last name and see what you get…and if you still don’t get anything,...

45 years ago this month, Black Sabbath released their fifth studio album, a self-produced endeavor which finally scored the band serious acclaim from some highly high-profile publications. Recorded in Studio 4 of London’s Morgan Studios, SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH definitely wasn’t...