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Bo Diddley: University of East Anglia, Norwich

Live Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 27 February 1982

BO DIDDLEY, as we all know, spans a 27 year career permutating a single riff to a sole conclusion: he is Bo Diddley! ...

Georgie Fame: After many years Georgie realises an ambition...

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 14 August 1965

GEORGIE FAME'S latest hit ('Like We Used To Be') represents an important step forward in the career of this 22-year-old singer-bandleader-pianist-organist. It's his first composition. ...

Bobby "Blue" Bland, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King: Talkin' Blues: John Lee Hooker/B.B. King/Bobby 'Blue' Bland

Retrospective and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 5 June 1982

THE BLUES speaks haltingly at first, haltingly and quietly in a darkened room. The curtains are drawn to shut out whatever passes for daylight during ...

Beatles, The, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Donovan, Manfred Mann, Ravi Shankar, Walker Brothers, The, Lester Young: Platter Chatter: Albums from The Beatles, Donovan, Ravi Shankar et al

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1967

SUNSHINE SUPERMAN, Donovan's first big "commercial" success, is a
beautiful, poetic, soothing, soaring, lyrical, rhythmic, groovy experience. ...

Little Richard: Well, look who's back — it's Little Richard

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 6 October 1962

BOBOBALOOMBA Abimbamboom all Rootti Tutti Frutti. With this gnomic verse about ice-cream and a shriek of masochistic ecstasy, Little Richard exploded before a wondering world ...

Joe Bonamassa, Derek Trucks Band, The: Joe Bonamassa: So, It's Like That/Derek Trucks Band: Joyful Noise

Review by Ted Drozdowski, Guitar World, October 2002

THE BLUES NEEDS a new messiah, a musician who can prove the style's vitality by exploding it across the barriers of age, culture and taste, ...

Inez & Charlie Foxx: Inez and Charlie Foxx: Gospel Voice and Lunatic Gestures...

Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 11 July 1964

CHARLES AND Inez Foxx are a handsome pair. To the initiated and fortunate few in this country who have heard them, they are known as ...

Lonnie Johnson: They don't listen today unless you play loud says Lonnie Johnson, the blues singer with electric box

Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 5 July 1952

"HOW LONG have you had that Gibson electric guitar?" I asked Lonnie Johnson when he came round to my flat to hear some of his ...

John Lee Hooker: Nothin' shakes a true blue legend

Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 27 October 1989

David Sinclair talks to rugged, illiterate bluesman John Lee Hooker, at 69 sounding like a man who breakfasts on iron filings. ...

Charles Brown: Honey Dripper: Charles Brown caresses the blues

Profile and Interview by RJ Smith, L.A. Weekly, 31 July 1997

THE MAN locking eyes with you from the cover of Charles Brown's last album is the kind of rogue so elegant he barely cocks his ...

Doug Sahm: He's About A Rocker

Interview by Luke Torn, Austin Chronicle, 9 June 1989

DEFINING DOUG Sahm is no easy task. The original Texas Tornado. Doug Saldana. Sir Douglas. Talk to a dozen different people and you'll get a ...

Mance Lipscomb, Leon Russell, Asylum Choir, The, Marc Benno: Marc Benno: More Minnows to Come

Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 22 June 1972

LOS ANGELES — Marc Benno used to be Leon Russell's musical partner; as the notorious Asylum Choir they made two albums together in Los Angeles ...

Mose Allison: Who Is... Mose Allison?

Retrospective by Geoffrey Himes, Music Aficionado, October 2016

THE LEGENDARY British organ player Georgie Fame once described his hero Mose Allison as "the jazz version of Bob Dylan." When an interviewer asked Fame's ...

Jimi Hendrix: An experience

Interview by Val Wilmer, Downbeat, 4 April 1968

THERE'S NO experience that compares to the first time the blues get to you. The hairs on your neck stand up and an uncanny churning ...

Keith Richards, Rolling Stones, The: Black and Blue: Keith Richards interviewed

Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 16 September 2015

Julian Marszalek meets the Rolling Stones guitarist and living legend to talk race, drugs and persistence. ...

Danny Gatton: The Fastest Guitar in the East

Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 11 August 1991

The fastest guitar in the East. Or the West, or the South — or anywhere on the planet, really. A lot of people think Danny ...

Johnny Otis (1990) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 24 February 1990

This is a transcript of Steve's audio interview with Johnny. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Los Lobos: Hour Of The Wolves

Interview by Gene Santoro, Downbeat, April 1985

FROM THE beginning, the real "news" about rock & roll has been the way it's ransacked, revitalized, and rearranged the musical styles that gave birth ...

Canned Heat: The badass blues band that death couldn't kill

Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, January 2015

PICTURE THE SCENE: April 4, 1981, outside the World Famous Palomino Club in North Hollywood. The members of Canned Heat and their friends are smoking ...

Blues Brothers, The: The Blues Brothers: The Horrifying True Story!

Special Feature by Robert Duncan, Creem, April 1979

(or, Ain't Got No Love, Don't Want No Starch) ...

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