The Checkerboard Lounge on Chicago’s South Side was a blues institution. Originally located in a tough part of town on 43rd Street, in 2005 it
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Though he was just 23 years old when his fifth album, Teaser And The Firecat, was released in October 1971, singer-songwriter Cat Stevens had already
The second of two albums compiled from recordings made at the celebrated New York jazz club Village Vanguard, State Of The Tenor: Live At The
Evoking long summer days in the UK, Booker T And The MGs’ track “Soul Limbo” has long since been known as the theme for the
The acclaimed bassist Phil Upchurch played with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and Jimmy Smith, with blues legends BB King and John Lee Hooker, and even
Just as it had done for many years by then, the sound of Motown was reverberating around America and the world in the last weeks
In the early months of 1971, Steppenwolf celebrated what, by then, was three years of unbroken success by releasing the Gold: Their Great Hits compilation.
When Rainbow returned to the Billboard Hot 100 for what turned out to be the last time, on November 5, 1983, their seventh studio album
The early 90s were a time of great change in the music world, with grunge and hip-hop starting to dominate the airwaves. Bands that ruled
The worlds of country and rock music were coming together by the early 70s. The Byrds had done Sweetheart Of The Rodeo; Bob Dylan and