rawk Archive
06 Jan 2023
Nick Mason: Demystifying Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… An Alleged Answer to Punk If only because it was released in 1977, Pink Floyd’s Animals is often hailed as the group’s answer (or reaction) to […]
05 Jan 2023
Nick Mason: Demystifying Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ (Part One)
On the occasion of Animals’ remix/reissue, I took the opportunity to chat with drummer Nick Mason – the only musician to have played on every single Pink Floyd release since […]
02 Jan 2023
Steve Hillage: Ten Albums That Changed My Life (Part One)
The following is a significantly more in-depth version of a short piece I edited for Goldmine Magazine . — bk Steve Hillage is one of those special musicians whose influence […]
01 Jan 2023
30 Days Out, January 2023 #1: GA-20, Larkin Poe, Firecracker Jazz Band, Samantha Fish
There’s definitely something of a theme to this, the first 30DO of the new year. All of the live music performances previewed this time are blues or jazz. One of […]
30 Dec 2022
CCR’s Doug Clifford: Digging for the Gold
After a highly successful run, beloved rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival broke up in 1972. John Fogerty had been the group’s undisputed creative center of gravity: he wrote nearly all […]
29 Dec 2022
It Came from Asheville! WNC Garage Rock in the ’60s, Part Three: Orange Purple Marmalade
Orange, purple, pink and green In Western North Carolina, Orange Purple Marmalade was an especially groundbreaking band. The group featured Theresa Crouch (today, Theresa Justus) on drums and vocals, Terry […]
28 Dec 2022
It Came from Asheville! WNC Garage Rock in the ’60s, Part Three: The Ron-De-Voos
Trip of the imagination Music historians trace the origins of psychedelic folk (or “freak folk”) back to 1964, when The Holy Modal Rounders gigged around New York City’s Lower East […]
27 Dec 2022
It Came from Asheville! WNC Garage Rock in the ’60s, Part Two: The (Fabulous) Wunz
The Wunz and onlys As the first wave of teenage rock combos spread across the mid-’60s U.S., the craze wasn’t limited to major metropolitan areas. Even Asheville – then with […]
26 Dec 2022
It Came from Asheville! WNC Garage Rock in the ’60s, Part One: Introduction
The garage rock movement of the mid 1960s yielded a bumper crop of rock and roll bands. Inspired by British Invasion groups like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks, […]
21 Dec 2022
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (Jam), Part 3 of 3
Continued from Part Two… Pause, then play After organizing the annual Christmas Jam benefit concert in his Asheville hometown for 30 years, Warren Haynes hit the pause button in 2019. […]