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16 Mar 2024
Take Five: Early Graham Nash Songs
Though he’s best known today as a revered solo artist (and former member of both Crosby Stills and Nash and Crosby Stills Nash and Young), Graham Nash found great success […]
15 Mar 2024
30 Days Out, March 2024 #2: Scott Stapp, Western Carolina Writers Showcase, Consider the Source, Los Straitjackets
Rock, regional singer-songwriters, popular prog and the best surf-style music you’ll ever hear: those are the highlights of Asheville live music in the coming 30 days. Here we go… Artist: […]
14 Mar 2024
Still Got the Mojo: A Conversation with Foghat’s Roger Earl (Part 4 of 4)
Continued from Part Three… With regard to a life in music, what’s the best advice you’ve ever been given? I left school when I was 15. I’d been working after […]
13 Mar 2024
Still Got the Mojo: A Conversation with Foghat’s Roger Earl (Part 3 of 4)
Continued from Part Two… 1977’s Foghat Live was even a bigger smash than was Fool for the City. It came out during that period when everybody put out a live […]
12 Mar 2024
Still Got the Mojo: A Conversation with Foghat’s Roger Earl (Part 2 of 4)
Continued from Part One… Foghat had some commercial success early on, but it was when “Fool for the City” came out that things really took off. With the benefit of […]
11 Mar 2024
Still Got the Mojo: A Conversation with Foghat’s Roger Earl (Part 1 of 4)
Foghat began in 1971 when three of its members – guitarist “Lonesome Dave” Peverett, bassist Tony Stevens and drummer Roger Earl left Kim Simmonds’ band Savoy Brown to start their […]
10 Mar 2024
Take Five: The Early Rides of Paul Revere
In part because the group’s leader was named after a hero of the Revolutionary War – and because the band’s choice of dress doubled down on that image – Paul […]
09 Mar 2024
Traxamillion’s Legacy: Believe the Hyphy
The term hyphy may be attributed to rapper Keak da Sneak; he did, after all, score the first hit single in that hip-hop style with 2005’s “Super Hyphy.” But that […]
08 Mar 2024
Please Do Not Fight: Fresh New Things
As the great philosopher Ringo Starr once said, time takes time. And nothing illustrates that aphorism more succinctly than the arc of Bay Area band Please Do Not Fight. Launched […]
07 Mar 2024
There’s a Fire in the House: A Conversation with Steve Vai (Part 4 of 4)
Continued from Part Three… What led to the release of your latest album Vai/Gash some 30 years after you made the record? It was 1990, and I was really into […]