To close out night one, the Roots Picnic crowd congregated at the Park Stage for a glimpse of Philadelphia's native child, Jill Scott. The famed soulstress swooned with her fiery voice and neo-soul classics like "A Long Walk" and "The Way." Fans swayed their hips and sang to the ni...
When I sang this part live on stage, I would often become furious, thrashing at my guitar until I could thrash no more, frantically forgiving my mother, her lover, my grandmother, her lovers, and most of all myself." ---Chapter Nine, Acid in the Air "Seeing Jimi play for the first...
Not so surprisingly, Jim Morrison was thinking of his nether regions when he sang "Light My Fire" on the Doors' self-titled debut album in 1967. Still, he makes a pretty convincing case to the girl he sweet talks for more than seven minutes. At least he's not promising her much more...
1. In her memoir, Wonderful Tonight, Boyd wrote: “He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful — and it turned out to be the most successful song he ever wrote, with more than 150 cover versions.”Watch the Beatles' 'Something...
As a member of The Band, Robertson sang and played guitars, percussion and piano. He's best known for writing such standout tracks as "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "The Shape I'm In" among others. ...
Brian Alford first met Colin Day when they both sang in a Fulham church choir but Brian would first pursue a career in music with his own youth club band called ‘The Shadows’ (no not that one) before John White and him broke away as a duo called The Shadows brothers’. They ...
Up to this point, nearly all of the vocals were handled by Gabriel, although other members frequently sang prominent backup (Banks on "Hogweed" for example), but Drummer Phil Collins had already sang lead on a couple of filler tracks ("For Absent Friends" and "More Fool Me") used during...
the guard sang out, as loud as he could roar. "Yo there! Stand! I shall fire!" The pace was suddenly checked, and, with much splashing and floundering, a man's voice called from the mist, "Is that the Dover mail" "Never you mind what it is!" the guard retorted. "What are ...
I’ve known Jenna for 25 years- her mom occasionally picked me up and took me to dance class with Jenna and her sister when I was a young dancer, and we sang together in school until I graduated. Jenna and I talked and laughed and caught up over wine and snacks and a two-mile ...
It’s what I needed to do musically. For now.” Having chosen Ricky Skaggs to produce—he also played several instruments and sang background—she found herself facing “a lot of flak. Ricky hadn’t had any hot records in a while, this was an important album for me, so everybody ...