An on-off guitarist for Bob Dylan, an acclaimed film composer, and a five-year spell as a macadamia nut farmer in Hawaii… It’s an unconventional career
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Ever since the song “Indestructible” was released on the Ray Barretto album of the same name in 1973, listeners have shouted along to smooth-voiced vocalist
The opportunity to experience the phenomenon of the Temptations as a live force has still, happily, been available to us thanks to the tireless touring
If you’ve never heard Wishbone Ash’s classic album Argus, you’ve surely heard music that it inspired. The British quartet’s trademark harmony guitars became a touchstone
The story behind “Stuck In The Middle With You,” the much-loved and only major hit by Scottish melodic rock troupe Stealers Wheel, is a classic
In 1986, the UK’s punk movement celebrated its tenth anniversary. Inevitably, some marked the occasion, not least Manchester’s Factory Records who staged a series of
A giant of Latin music, Tito Puente’s storied multi-decade career as a bandleader and percussionist yielded a plethora of essential compositions and recordings. Yet ironically
Located in the picturesque seaside town of Villefranche-sur-Mer, a hidden gem on the idyllic Côte d’Azur, is Nellcôte: a grand, 19th-century mansion that overlooks the
By the time Joe Henderson arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s New Jersey recording facility in April 1964 to record his third Blue Note album, In
If listeners crave real evidence of the UK’s special relationships with other countries, they could start with The Chemical Brothers’ second album, critically acclaimed international