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Out Now, Tomorrow, and Next Month: REO Speedwagon, NOT SO SILENT NIGHT (Article)
Thursday, November 2, 2017
If you’re not quite sure what to make of the title of this piece, don’t worry: by the time you get to the end of it, you’ll understand completely. In 2009, REO Speedwagon released their first-ever Christmas album, NOT SO SILENT NIGHT: CHRISTMAS WITH REO SPEEDWAGON, on which the band – which is celebrating its 50 th anniversary this year, amazingly enough – rocked their way through a number of holiday standards as well as few newly-composed Christmas ditties. Rhino is handling the reissue of the album, but it’s being rolled out in stages. On October 20 th, it hit all of your favorite digital
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Happy Anniversary: ZZ Top, DEGUELLO (Article)
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
38 years ago this month, ZZ Top released their sixth studio album, and we didn’t have to love it like we did, but we did…and we thank them. Produced by Bill Ham, who’d also twiddled the knobs for all of the band’s previous albums, DEGÜELLO was ZZ Top’s first album for Warner Brothers, the label which would prove to be their home for many more years to come. It’s hard to say that the trio actively changed their sound to embrace the opportunities provided to them by being on one of the biggest record labels in the world – indeed, as Ultimate Classic Rock put it, Degüello might have made their
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Happy Birthday: Dan Peek (Article)
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Although he’s no longer with us, today we celebrate the life of Daniel Milton Peek, known to his friends as Dan and known to the world at large as one of the members of America from 1970 through 1977. Peek first met his future America bandmates Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley when their military families were stationed in England and all three guys were students at London Central High School. When they joined forces to become America, Peek was a jack of all trades within the band, playing guitar, bass, keyboards, and harmonica while also singing lead and backing vocals. Arguably his greatest
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Once Upon a Time at the Top of the Charts: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, SO FAR (Article)
Friday, November 3, 2017
43 years ago today, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young found themselves atop the Billboard 200 for the third consecutive time, thanks to a compilation of their greatest hits up to that point. The optimistically-titled SO FAR featured five of CSN&Y’s six singles up to that point, and while the sixth, “Marrakesh Express,” apparently didn’t warrant inclusion, there certainly wasn’t any issue with quality with a collection that included “Teach Your Children,” “Ohio,” “Woodstock,” “Our House,” and “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” The reason the album came into existence in the first place was that the quartet
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Single Stories: Fine Young Cannibals, “Don’t Look Back” (Article)
Friday, August 25, 2017
28 years ago today, Fine Young Cannibals released the third single from their second album, a song drawing from a decidedly different sonic template than the tracks that had preceded it on the charts. Written by Roland Gift and David Steele, “Don’t Look Back” stands apart from “She Drives Me Crazy” and “Good Thing” immediately, thanks to its jangly guitar riffs, which – to use a point of reference from the era in which it was originally released – sound straight out of the Mighty Lemon Drops’ playbook. The lyrics of the song aren’t nearly as upbeat as the music, however, with Gift singing
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5 Things You Might Not Know About Wilson Pickett (Article)
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Wilson Pickett sang of “Mustang Sally” and the “Land of 1,000 Dances,” but there was more to the man than just the songs that brought him his biggest fame. Join us, if you will, on a quick trip through 5 things you might not known about the “Wicked Pickett.” He enjoyed boating and fishing. Granted, this could be something that was played up for the press, but in a 1968 issue of Ebony, Pickett was shown with his wife, his saxophonist, Jack Philpot, and Philpot’s wife, on the open water. The caption reads, “Favorite hobby, boating, is enjoyed by Mr. and Mrs. Pickett and baritone saxophonist Jack
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Happy Anniversary: Depeche Mode, “Personal Jesus” (Article)
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
28 years ago this week, Depeche Mode released the debut single from the then-still-forthcoming VIOLATOR album, blowing the minds of anyone who may have still thought of them as nothing more than a synth-pop group. Written by Martin Gore and co-produced by the band and Flood (real name: Mark Ellis), the lyrics of “Personal Jesus” were, per the aforementioned Mr. Gore, inspired by the book Elvis and Me, written by Priscilla Presley. As Gore told Spin at the time, “It’s about how Elvis Presley was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody’s heart is
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This Day in 1995: James Taylor and Carly Simon Reunite (Article)
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
22 years ago today, Martha’s Vineyard played host to a reunion that some might well have said would never have happened outside of a wedding or funeral, getting a former music power couple back onstage to croon a few tunes together. Despite divorcing more than a decade earlier (they announced their split in 1981 and finalized it in 1983), James Taylor and Carly Simon continued to maintain separate residences in the same place: Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Both developed strong ties to the area, and when the Agricultural Society of the area came to them individually and asked if they’d be
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Deep Dive: Seals & Crofts, SUMMER BREEZE (Article)
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
45 years ago today, Dan Seals and Dash Crofts – known collectively as Seals & Crofts – released the album that would serve both as their commercial breakthrough and, indeed, the defining album of their entire career. Produced by Louie Shelton, who had also helmed the duo’s previous album, 1971’s YEAR OF SUNDAY, a.k.a. their Warner Brothers Records debut, SUMMER BREEZE proved so much more successful than its predecessor that a man-on-the-street poll would almost certainly find that most people think it’s actually their debut album. In fact, they’d been recording as a duo since 1969, which is
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Happy 50th: Dionne Warwick, THE WINDOWS OF THE WORLD (Article)
Thursday, August 31, 2017
50 years ago today, Dionne Warwick released her eighth studio album, an LP which kicked off with a song which would prove to be one of the most iconic singles of her long career. Produced – as ever (at least at the time) – by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, THE WINDOWS OF THE WORLD featured a number of songs which would go on to become ‘60s classics, not to mention one which would prove to be an ‘80s classic, if not one by Ms. Warwick. We’ll get to that in just a moment, but first let’s talk about the title track. Although “The Windows of the World” was only a minor hit for Warwick, she declared
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