One of the great “should’ve beens” of British music, Terry Reid lost a lengthy battle with cancer on August 4th and we lost a huge musical talent. Famously the first choice to front the New Yardbirds, […]
Songwriter, musician and Southern native who captured the essence of the Americana South. I’m not sure how many of our Americana UK readers are aware of Bucky Lindsey, who was a great songwriter, a funky bass […]
“Musicians start out thinking they’re going to change the world when really it’s the people who make the change. The music just provokes the reaction.” – Mike Peters. Most people who knew anything about Mike Peters […]
David Johansen was a man of many guises: lead singer for the glam-rockers The New York Dolls, lounge lizard in his Buster Poindexter act, the wisecracking Ghost of Christmas Past in the movie “Scrooged” and simply […]
Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Davey Graham…the great guitarists of the British folk boom of the 1960s are leaving us one by one and now, sadly, we have to add Wizz Jones to that number. Very much […]
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