Month: August 2017

Released as a single by ABC-Paramount on September 23rd, 1967, the jazz giant’s classic cover still serves as medicine for turbulent times.

With over five decades in the game, there’s a reason Savoy Brown has stood the test of time. ‘Witchy Feelin’ is it.

“I think that our music is very flexible.”

“This is the song we usually cap off the end of our shows with, and gets the craziest crowd response.”

The 2017 class of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame includes Memphis Horns, Maurice White, and Roy Orbison.

In the 1960s, most of our music came on 45s, those seven-inch discs that contained one song on each side. 45s were everywhere.

This is the latest installment of our weekly series The Language of the Blues, in which author and rock musician…

“John Lee Hooker’s guitar sound is unmistakably his. No one else can play like that. It’s raw. It’s intense. It’s everything I want to hear in a blues record.”

“Nobody know John Lee Hooker. They know as much about my cat as they know about me.”

Marcus King joined Mule, and they played an incredible version of the Allman Brothers’ “Whipping Post,” with Haynes and King swapping leads that had the crowd screaming for more.