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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1965
by C. Michael Bailey
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1965 Ed Ward 416 Pages ISBN: # 978-1250071163 Flatiron Books2016 Ed Ward has been the Rock & Roll Historian on NPR's Fresh Air (WHYY, Philadelphia—Terry Gross) for thirty years. He is the author of Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll (Summit Books, 1986). With his bona fides established, Ward has begun his magnum opus in his The History of Rock ...
Continue ReadingThe Rolling Stones: Blue And Lonesome
by Doug Collette
Originally begun as an impromptu respite from the recording of new original material, the Rolling Stones' Blue and Lonesome quickly turned into a rediscovery of the group's blues roots. And along the way toward completing the three days of sessions, the iconic rockers rediscovered themselves as a band with as much purpose and passion. Blue and Lonesome is not flashy in the least. It is, rather, pithy in its economy, the Stones approach mirroring the agony/ecstasy duality of ...
Continue ReadingRolling Stones - Ole Ole Ole!: A Trip Across Latin America
by Doug Collette
Rolling Stones Ole Ole Ole!: A Trip Across Latin America Fathom Events2016 Although it is compels watching more than once to absorb the varied detail within its two-hours plus duration, The Rolling Stones' Latin American tour documentary, Ole Ole Ole!, is worth seeing just for a single, priceless five minute interval near its mid-point. After guitarist Keith Richard and vocalist Mick Jagger laughingly reminisce about their visit to Brazil in the Sixties, they ...
Continue ReadingThe Rolling Stones: Blue And Lonesome
by C. Michael Bailey
We should be clear of one thing: were it not for the British Invasion, the United States would likely not have been introduced to its own folk music as early as she was. Gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, country, and rock and roll all, at least partly, depended on breaking into the lucrative lily-white commercial market (think Elvis Presley) and it took the forever-forward thinking Brits to take advantage of the musical vacuum created by American institutional racism ...
Continue ReadingThe Rolling Stones: Blue And Lonesome
by Karl Ackermann
Among those jazz fans who take a nip of rock & roll from time to time, there may be a secret wish that groups like The Rolling Stones would head for their overdue retirement. That the seventy-three year old Sir Michael Philip “Mick" Jagger and his septuagenarian bandmates have nothing left to prove, is long established. That they become a parody of themselves with nothing left to say is the cringing fear. Defying the odds, the Stones issue what may ...
Continue ReadingThe Rolling Stones: Blue and Lonesome
by Nenad Georgievski
It was the love for blues and R&B music that bonded two teenage music aficionados Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and this music was the building blocks on which they based their work of art--the band The Rolling Stones. 50 years ago when the Rolling Stones' songwriting partnership between these two began gaining its momentum and they started writing their own songs, the band slowly began abandoning their all-blues cover records approach and commenced branching and welcoming more diverse music ...
Continue ReadingRolling Stones: Sweet Summer Sun & Havana Moon DVD/CD
by Doug Collette
It might be fair to say that any concert appearance by a band with fifty years plus history is an occasion in itself and doubly so (or more) to offer that observation about the Rolling Stones. Who would've guessed in 1963, 1973 or 1983 that the group would not only still be together in 2016, but playing regularly around the world? Or remain a sufficiently popular draw to attract the huge crowds that attended the concert(s) in London's Hyde Park ...
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