It’s a safe bet that many rock fans—even those with a penchant for sixties music—know of the Zombies only via their three Top 5 hits: “She’s Not There” (1964), “Tell Her No” (1965), and “Time of the Season” (1969). But as a recently launched reissue series makes clear, this British Invasion group had much more […]
Music Reviews: Jimi Hendrix’s ‘The Axis: Bold as Love Sessions,’ plus Bobby Charles, Dr. John, and Nina Simone “Well, I got this guitar, and I learned how to make it talk,” sings Bruce Springsteen in his iconic “Thunder Road.” No knock on Bruce, who plays his instrument masterfully, but if that line applies to anyone, […]
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A Celebration of Jimi Hendrix and His Electric Lady Studios Way back in 1982, in a review of an album of previously unavailable material called The Jimi Hendrix Concerts, this writer expressed surprise that a dozen years after the guitarist’s death, “anything at all remains left to release.” In fact, that 1982 double-LP turned out […]
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Dead of Winter “I will measure up my life, my days as they go screaming by With Xs on the calendar, till pennies on my eyes I will count my many blessings with gratefulness my mentor And I will count myself in luck as I count the dead of winter” An unfinished song by […]
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“Can you imagine us years from today Sharing a park bench quietly? How terribly strange to be seventy” Old Friends by Paul Simon Old Friends was written by Paul Simon at age twenty-four. That to me is an amazing fact. How could a person of that age possibly even dare to write a song from […]
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