“The Real Thing” became one of the first studio masterpieces of the modern era. Alongside engineer John Sayers, Meldrum pioneered too many recording techniques to list here, but among the most monumental were flanging, in which two identical copies of the recording were played together but ...
If you've yet to experience a Jelly Roll show and would like to know what you're getting into, check out this list of his most-played songs: 20 Songs Jelly Roll Plays The Most During His Shows Jelly Roll has been a touring machine in recent years. He is following up a busy 2023 ...
“Pretty When You Cry” is one of her most raw moments onUltraviolence.She made it up on the spot, improvising lyrics while guitarist Blake Stranathan played. “The way you heard it recorded is the way I freestyled it,” she told NPR. Her ragged voice cracks as she sings “All those...
For the next two and a half hours, Wonder played most of his biggest numbers, many of which happened to reinforce his message of dropping defenses and building bridges. As polarized as the nation is right now, Wonder’s dream felt a lot less naïve when delivered via “Higher Ground” ...
The Knack's arrival to new wave was by accident. The Los Angeles quartet modeled itself afterthe Beatles- from dress to album cover art - and played a mix of garage-inspired power pop that had more in common with the era's '60s-derived pop-rock than the skinny-tie brigade. But the ...
At times it seems like the séance that marks the cataclysmic event of John Lennon’s “Cry Baby Cry”. And then “Jenni” all of a sudden climaxes in a single repeated guitar note, played over and over, finally exploding into an eerie, monstrous yelping during the last chorus. It coul...
The song is played as Actor Chill Wills stumbled toward a lake – bleeding from a fatal stomach wound…the song plays as his wife races to comfort him in his last moments: Mama put my guns in the ground I can’t shoot them anymore ...
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If Night Ride Home sounds less played than conjured Taming the Tiger is like the steam that twists and disperses from its broiling, potent stew.As much ambience pervaded Night Ride Home, Hejira and the like, Taming the Tiger is the only album in Mitchell’s estimable catalog to feel ambient...
Orphanedas an infant inCanadawhen her mother, a PlainsCree, died in an automobile accident, Sainte-Marie was adopted by an American couple ofMi’kmaqancestry and raised inMassachusettsandMaine. She playedpianoas a young child, and as a teenager she took upguitarand started composing her own ...