AP - Jun 23, 2005
THURSDAY, 5:45 p.m.: The empty expanse of cow pasture that was once Manchester is morphing into Tennessee s third largest city. Meanwhile, somewhere near Centeroo, the first major drum circle has been...
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Roots is a term that gets thrown around quite a bit in music, particularly for those bands digging into its most cavernous tradition. In the case of the North Mississippi Allstars, that concept just happens...
More »AP - Jun 3, 2005
Southern rock died as a distinct genre in the 1980s, but the raw, scruffy spirit of the music made by groups like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers is alive and well in contemporary country. Montgomery...
More »Reuters - Nov 20, 2004
Jerry Wexler is the classic record business guy. For more than three decades, Wexler, as co-owner of Atlantic Records and later senior VP at Warner Bros. Records, signed and worked with scores of vocalists...
More »Reuters - May 7, 2004
To see and hear the documentary film Tom Dowd and the Language of Music is to experience the history of American music. Perhaps more than anyone else, Dowd, who died Oct. 27, 2002, at age 77, is responsible...
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