r&b Archive
09 Jun 2014
Capsule Reviews: And Yet Three More from Real Gone Music
Here’s the third of four collections of brief reviews of recently-released reissues and/or compilations from Real Gone Music. Dr. John, The Night Tripper – GRIS-gris Dr. John (aka Mac Rebbenack) […]
06 Jun 2014
Capsule Reviews: Three More from Real Gone Music
Continuing from yesterday’s collection, here are more quick looks at recently-released reissues and/or compilations from Real Gone Music. Toomorrow: Original Soundtrack Album Seeing the names Harry Saltzman (of James Bond […]
05 Jun 2014
Capsule Reviews: Three from Real Gone Music
Because there’s so much of a backlog here at Musoscribe’s palatial new World HQ ( I moved recently), here’s the first of at least three collections of short reviews. These […]
27 May 2014
Book Review: Huey “Piano” Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues
One need not dig very deep into the collected history of popular music to discover tales of artists who’ve been ripped off, gotten the short end of the stick, been […]
29 Apr 2014
Album Review: David Ruffin – My Whole World Ended / Feelin’ Good
Sure, everybody knows The Temptations, and their many hits, including “My Girl,” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” both featuring lead vocals of David Ruffin. But fewer – especially those […]
21 Apr 2014
Ask Me Some Questions: The Graham Parker Interview, Part 4
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: As much as I love your songwriting, two of my favorite tunes of yours have always been “Hold Back the Night” and “I Want […]
18 Apr 2014
Ask Me Some Questions: The Graham Parker Interview, Part 3
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: As the new Ask Me No Questions documentary points out, you parted ways with The Rumour after The Up Escalator (1980), but with the […]
17 Apr 2014
Ask Me Some Questions: The Graham Parker Interview, Part 2
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: In the new documentary film Don’t Ask Me Questions, you come off very authentically as a sensitive, soft-spoken individual. But back in the 80s, […]
16 Apr 2014
Ask Me Some Questions: The Graham Parker Interview, Part 1
Once pegged as one of rock’s angry young men, these days Graham Parker is neither angry nor young. And while his profile these last few decades has been lower than […]
07 Apr 2014
Album Review: Tower of Power — Hipper Than Hip
For quite a number of years – primarily the mid 90s to around 2006 – I was immersed in a consuming hobby of sorts: I collected and traded bootlegs […]