Black Echoes
Black Echoes was a popular black music and culture magazine, first published in 1976. The magazine was one of the first to cover reggae artists in the early to mid 1970s. It was later renamed Echoes.
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The Fatback Band: Fatbacks Hit Back
Interview by Robin Katz, Black Echoes, 21 February 1976
SOMEONE BLEW the whistle on the Fatback band this week. "The whole show was disappointing" came the critical opinion. "They basically play the same riff ...
Tina Charles: Tina And A Tale Of A Toothbrush!
Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Black Echoes, 28 February 1976
IT BEGAN, as these things very often do, with a toothbrush. A brief pause before we continue, lest the unqualified mention of the hygienic appliance ...
Gloria Jones: From Classic Soul to Rock 'N' Roll
Interview by Tamara Jermott, Black Echoes, 8 May 1976
WHAT DO Gladys Knight, Marc Bolan, Edna Wright of Honeycone, Eddie Kendricks, Billy Preston, The Los Angeles cast of Hair, Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye have ...
Jerry Butler: The Iceman Cometh, Yet Again
Profile and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, Black Echoes, 24 July 1976
IT WAS deejay George Wood who originally tagged Jerry Butler "The Iceman" because of his on-stage cool and it's still an especially appropriate nickname, not ...
Interview by Robin Katz, Black Echoes, 25 September 1976
Suddenly England has a lady singer songwriter to vie with America's greatest. Robin Katz talks to Joan Armatrading ...
Gladys Knight and the Pips: Gladys Knight & the Pips: Glad it's Knight
Interview by Robin Katz, Black Echoes, 15 January 1977
"EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'bout the good old days," right? In their 25-year history, Gladys Knight and the Pips have had their share of ups and downs, ...
Live Review by Penny Reel, Black Echoes, 29 January 1977
Let's hear it for some real talent ...
Interview by David Toop, Black Echoes, 24 August 1985
DAVID TOOP talks to the world's greatest soft soul harmony group – THE STYLISTICS ...
Denise LaSalle, Rockin' Sidney: Rockin' Sidney and Denise LaSalle: The Toot Toot Route
Report by Mike Atherton, Black Echoes, 20 July 1986
Sidney Simien spent part of 1984 recording new songs at his home studio in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Unremarkable as this information may seem, it was ...
Various Artists: King Tubby’s Fast Car (Serious Business)
Review by Penny Reel, Black Echoes, 26 May 1990
THE MAN WHO own the Serious Business record label also drives a gleaming scarlet Mercedes-Benz sports car bearing the famous registration number JAH 50N, or ...
Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 22 September 1990
FOR SOME reason, I'd half expected renowned Detroit techno demon Derrick May to be the quiet, retiring sort. ...
Primal Scream: Screamadelica (Creation)
Review by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 21 September 1991
IT'S SAD when people's preconceptions and filo-friendly phobias dictate that a review has to start by defending its very presence but there will be readers ...
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 21 September 1991
MUSICAL BARRIERS are currently falling faster than Russian statues. Exciting crossovers are making it often redundant to use terms like house, hip-hop and soul while ...
Andrew Weatherall, Jah Wobble: Inner Vision: Andrew Weatherall & Jah Wobble
Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 15 February 1992
An out-mind experience with the extra-dimensional Andrew Weatherall and Jah Wobble, the man for whom the expression "raving mad" was invented... ...
Larry Heard aka Mr. Fingers: Larry Heard: House Music's Most Mysterious Pioneer
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 29 February 1992
LARRY HEARD has always been the most low profile of the original house music pioneers. Although his name has graced some of the deepest, most ...
Robert Owens: Bob's Full House
Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, May 1992
"IT'S PAIN!" For a second Robert Owens assumes the tortured persona which electrifies his performances. The lower lip quivers, the huge eyes cloud and he ...
Lil’ Louis: Lil' Louis: French Kissing In New York
Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, 12 September 1992
LAST JANUARY, during a particularly action-packed week in New York City, I was invited to experience one of the infamous Wild Pitch parties by D.J. ...
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, Black Echoes, February 1993
DJ PIERRE IS in fighting mood these days and, having seen the scope for his legendary house music trailblazing die in Chicago and narrow in ...
Teddy Dan: United States Of Africa (Rootsman)
Review by Penny Reel, Black Echoes, December 1994
IT IS CURIOUS how, having lain dormant in reggae music throughout the length of the Eighties, Rasta ideology should once again be making its presence ...
Memoir by Penny Reel, Black Echoes, 13 January 1996
Penny Reel at the pool table meets a man from creation. ...
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