“Bruce can do anything he wants because the guys behind him are so solid.” Robert Allen discusses ’21st Century Rock ‘n Roll’ (ft. E Street members Max Weinberg and Garry Tallent) — a remastered collection honoring gifted engineer Ben Elliott, out now!
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Today sees the release of Gaye’s “Tribute to John Lewis: Ain’t No Grave Can Hold His Body Down,” the second single in her ‘Freedom Song Trilogy’
Mike Zito ignored the naysayers when he formed his record label. And he’s ahead of the curve with his new album ‘Blues for the Southside,’ a 17-cut live extravaganza that will blow your head off and “take you there” as the Staple Singers would say.
Listen to first single “Lord Hold My Hand” from forthcoming ‘The Devil Don’t Like It’
Premiering exclusively today is the slow-burning “Red Mama Blues,” named for Watkin’s guitar. ‘In Paris’ out March 18 via Music Maker Foundation!
“Here’s to taking a sad song and making it sadder.”
“’That’s What the Blues Are For’ is a retro, heavily blues influenced song with a Nashville lyric twist. It is a request for truth in a relationship, but in an ‘in your face’ kinda way.” – Mike T. Lewis of The Twangtown Paramours
More than 60 years after first helping to break the glass ceiling by defining the sultry siren in the all-male rock and roll bastion, Ronnie Spector remained a role model for contemporary artists like the late Amy Winehouse
“You can’t hide the truth forever/It eventually comes out…Facts are facts/There’s no spinning that/That’s the thing about the truth.”
If we as a society have any sanity left, it will be the arts that see us through