Echoes
Echoes started out in 1976 as Black Echoes, a weekly newspaper covering mostly soul, funk and reggae, and became a monthly magazine in 2000, broadening its coverage to include hip-hop, jazz and R&B/pop.
13 articles
List of articles in the library
Bobby "Blue" Bland: Two Steps From The Blues (Soul Jam)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2012
WHEN BOBBY BLAND'S debut LP Two Steps From The Blues crept out over here on Vogue in the early '60s, one reviewer, whether through bitchiness, ...
Report and Interview by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2002
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, has been a music town for over half a century. In the early 1950s, Lillian McMurry's Trumpet label made Sonny Boy Williamson into ...
The Dells: Originals: The Dells
Retrospective by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2008
THE RAYS, formed by five youngsters from Harvey, Illinois in 1952, were just one of the thousands of doo-wop groups springing up in America's cities ...
George Faith, Lee "Scratch" Perry: George Faith: Super Eight (Trojan)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, May 2012
TROJAN RECORDS' resolution for 2012 was obviously to make all fans of creative, forward-looking, barmy producer Lee "Scratch" Perry very happy indeed, and so far ...
Lovey's Original Trinidad String Band: Calypso Dawn (Bear Family)
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, 2013
THIS IS A REMARKABLE album. It captures the music of a Trinidadian dance band which, while undertaking a tour of the USA, recorded sessions for ...
Ann Peebles: Brand New Classics
Review by Mike Atherton, Echoes, May 2006
THE RETURN OF two legendary names from the past: Track Records, the label which gave us Jimi Hendrix and the Who, not to mention fine ...
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