Don Covay
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Don Covay: Blaises Club, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 9 April 1966
DON COVAY is another of the American soul singers at present on our shores. ...
Profile and Interview by Bill Harry, Record Mirror, 21 January 1967
DON COVAY burst on the music scene as a singer in the U.S. in 1964 with a self-penned smash hit called 'Mercy Mercy'. As a ...
Report and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 21 April 1973
AMERICA JUST had to catch on to reggae. After all, the roots of Jamaican music lie in the '50s out-put of Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis ...
Afrique: Soul Makossa; The Independents: The First Time We Met; Don Covay: Super Dude 1
Review by Bob Fisher, Cream, September 1973
THERE MUST be some crap music coming out of the States, or is it me? Can't I discern between the good, the bad and the ...
Review by Charlie Gillett, Rolling Stone, 22 November 1973
Super Dude? It sounds like this year's version of Muddy Waters' 'Hoochie Coochie Man' or Pickett's 'Midnight Mover' but where those men defined love as ...
Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Black Music, December 1973
DON COVAY is a permanent fixture in the music of this era. ...
Review by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 8 February 1975
THE BIGGEST MISTAKE Don Covay made with this album was in making 'It's Better To Have' track one, side one. ...
Review by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 15 February 1975
DON COVAY'S resurrection as an artist was one of the brightest events of last year. His 'It's Better To Have' made number 21 in the ...
Profile by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, March 1975
BEHIND THE front line of acknowledged soul stars, the Stevies, Arethas, Al Greens of the day, has always lurked a second league of creative talent; ...
Don Covay: Travelin' In Heavy Traffic
Review by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 7 August 1976
AN APPRAISAL OF THE VIRTUES OF MR. DON COVAY ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 4 February 2015
Songwriter, singer and record producer whose compositions became hits for stars including Chubby Checker and Aretha Franklin. ...
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