But Sheila Weller's candid "Girls Like Us" -- about the lives and work of Carly Simon, Carole King and Joni Mitchell -- is surprisingly stellar. Unlike far too many celebrity bios, "Girls Like Us" never settles for simple sensationalism.Cohen, Howard...
One of the best male indie singers, Smith's music would become more fleshed out intricate with each album, borrowing as much from The Beatles or ambitious artpop like Scott Walker as Dylan or Johnny Cash. His death at his own hands is truly one of the great heartbreaks of underground musi...
it would be a post many thousands of lines long. When we talk about 3-chord songs, we often mean these three: I-IV-V. And they account for thousands of songs. The further back you go, the more there are. It was during the 60s that songwriters developed their chord choices into some...
BOB CHEEVERS:615-300-1213; Austin, TX.Web. Singer/songwriter. Bob is a Texas Music Awards 2011 "Singer/songwriter Of The Year", an Emmy-winning songwriter, Kerrville winner and was opening act for Johnny Cash's final tour. Bob lives in Austin and throughout Texas and the world spinning...
History of the Brill Building Brill Building Songwriters and Famous Tenants Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What was the Brill Building known for? The Brill Building is known for its contributions to music history. Specifically, it helped shape pop and rock music in the 1950s and 60s. ...
Meanwhile,Petula Clarkperformed "Downtown" in honor of Hatch, the English composer who wrote many of her hits in the '60s including "Valentino" and "My Love." The evening's other stars includedAmerican Idol'sJordin Sparks,Wiz Khalifa,Alison Krauss,Rob Thomas...
made use of the rich back-catalogue of material by blues and country artists. Presley, of course, could pick and choose from the top composers of the day. In the late '50s and early '60s, both Motown and Stax employed crack in-house writing teams, and the famous Brill Building churned...
David Gahr’s lens on the folk music scene of the 1950s and ’60s in Greenwich Village and the historic Newport Folk Festivals provided the music and the period with indelible, iconic images remembered by an older generation of folk music fans who were there, and serve as historic record fo...
I've been thinking, too, about the times Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and Nick Drake were living in - the late '60s into the '70s. Back then, when you were alone late at night, you truly were alone. You couldn't fall down a YouTube rabbit hole of old Steve Yzerman goals, or che...
Pop music historians--and the charts--would beg to differ, not just with his dismissal of the vast majority of his catalogue, but with his terming the dozen best as merely “good.” Advertisement “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” . . . “Papa Was a Rolling Stone” . . . “Just...