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It’s hard to imagine how rock would have evolved without Blondie’s landmark third album, Parallel Lines. Its influence is easily detectable in the DNA of...

Graham Gouldman was once in conversation with a gentleman from Jamaica, and, remembering one of that country’s great sporting specialities, said to him “You must...

In one of the very first critiques of Isaac Hayes’ 1969 album, Hot Buttered Soul, it was dubbed “symphonic soul.” For anyone brought up on...

In jazz circles, the smallest mention of John Coltrane usually invokes a mood of hushed reverence. That’s because Trane – as his disciples refer to...

John Lomax or Alan Lomax are the names that most remember when it comes to collecting recordings of American folk music. But it was Robert...

John Mayall has essentially made a career from presenting a British version of the American art form of the blues, so perhaps it’s ironic that...