deep dive

Duane Eddy is a true guitar legend, a man known far and wide for his particularly twangy sound, but while he built his reputation on such classic instrumentals as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road,” “Because They’re Young,” and...

35 years ago this month, The B-52’s released their third studio album, little realizing that someday the LP’s anniversary would inspire Rhino Records to compose a column about the occasion for their ongoing Deep Dive feature. But here we are,...

Today we celebrate the birthday of George Benson, a legend in more realms of music than we’re going to take time to count up, but we are going to set aside a few minutes and a few paragraphs to spotlight...

The time has come to hop in the Wayback Machine and take a trip to a time when a couple of jazz guys could team up at the Montreux Jazz Festival, release the end results of their performance, and end...

20 years ago today, Van Dyke Parks released the first – and, to date, only – live album of his career. Recorded exactly where you’d think an album subtitled RECORDED LIVE AT THE ASH GROVE would’ve been recorded (and if...

As part of Rhino’s celebration of Black History Month, we’re taking a few minutes today to look back at an underrated album from our catalog, and we’ve selected a solo LP from a man who’s better known for the work...

It was on this date in 1980 that the world lost one of the great New Orleans pianists: Henry Roeland Byrd, better known by the sobriquet Professor Longhair. As such, today would be a good day for you to take...

Today the world at large – but particularly the part of the world that’s located squarely in France – celebrates the birthday of famed French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy. Here at Rhino, we’ve chosen to do so by taking a quick...

The 1970s was a very good decade to be Al Stewart: thanks to such major hits as “Year of the Cat,” “On the Border,” and “Time Passages,” the Glasgow-born, Dorset-raised singer/songwriter became a big name on both sides of the...