Top 10 Chicago Blues Artists
Based around the early and captivating sounds of an amped-up electric guitar and wailing harmonica, the Chicago blues sound as we now know it was...
‘Soul & Inspiration’ Album: Righteous Brothers Find ‘The Heart Of The Song’
When the Righteous Brothers made it in America, they really made it. On April 30, 1966, as they came off their second US No.1 single...
‘Junk Culture’: The Catchiest Album OMD Ever Made
OMD’s fourth album, Dazzle Ships, is now widely regarded as a masterpiece, but its radical, leftfield approach cost its creators dear when it first appeared...
‘Red Rose Speedway’: Paul McCartney And Wings At Full Throttle
When Paul McCartney And Wings started recording their second album, Red Rose Speedway, in Los Angeles, in March 1972, it came during a time which...
Free Jazz: A Short History Of The Jazz Sub-Genre
Back in 1959, Texan alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman went to New York’s Five Spot venue armed with just a plastic saxophone and proceeded to wreak...
Shining Brightly: Richard And Linda Thompson’s Folk-Rock Beacon
The 21st century has seen a welcome upswing in appreciation of Britain’s great history of cutting-edge folk-rock in the 1960s and 70s. So it might...