They are famously one of the most dedicated studio bands of all time, being both creative and ruthless in equal measure. Enough stories of them being meticulous task masters from behind the mixing board to suggest that at least some of them are true. It means that, out of any band in the 1970s, they were willing to cast judgments on all kinds of fabulous instrumentalists.
Read MoreTOKYO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The original bag custom-made for late actress Jane Birkin which became a design icon was revealed to media in Tokyo on Wednesday by the Japanese company that purchased it for a record 8.6 million euros ($10 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris earlier this year.
Read MoreSinger and The Voice star is back with 22nd album 'Grandeur Nature', following his lung cancer remission and vocal recovery.
Read MoreThe voice of legendary singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash has been to known stir an audience.
Read MoreCelebrated Beninese singer and multiple Grammy Award winner, Angelique Kidjo, has spoken out against musicians who use their art to glorify or promote politicians and political parties.
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Global Constellation has secured key deals on Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s Marianne Faithfull documentary Broken English, ahead of the film’s UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival on Saturday, October 11.
Read MoreThe art of songwriting is something that people have devoted their lives to understanding, with Steely Dan even giving up life on the road in a bid to pursue perfect songs.
Read MoreLarry Campbell’s list of performance and recording credits can hold its own next to any other. In five decades of performance, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer has lent his talents to ventures from some of rock’s most iconic artists of all time, including Levon Helm, B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Linda Thompson, Little Feat, Mavis Staples and Bob Dylan, with whom he spent seven years on the Never Ending Tour. Now, he’s added Bruce Springsteen to that list by his part in the long-awaited live recreation of Nebraska.
Read More“My opinions are changing so fast I can hardly keep up with meself,” Eric Burdon told an Associated Press reporter in 1967. By this point, his band The Animals were already one of the old veterans of the British Invasion, but at the age of 25, Burdon was still a growing boy.
Read MoreAmericana guitarist Larry Campbell talks about the “low-key” sessions resulting in an updated version of Springsteen’s classic album
Read MoreWe’re thrilled to share a warm, in-depth conversation between Ed Greene (host of The Freak Show, Tuesdays 6–8 PM on WMF 88.5 FM) and legendary guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Warren Haynes.
Read MoreWhen a song lands perfectly in a major motion picture’s score, it can become its own character within the entire experience.
Read More“We had two or three tunes, or pieces of tunes, and ‘The Weight’ was one I would work on,” Levon Helm explained.
Read MoreIn an excerpt from her new Birkin biography, ‘It Girl,’ Marisa Meltzer marks the moment when a 16-year-old Brit began her ascent toward becoming the ultimate French style icon.
Read MoreCal Performances couldn’t have engineered a better season kickoff than a joyous collaboration between Beninese superstar singer Angélique Kidjo and cello maestro Yo-Yo Ma. "Sarabande Africaine" explores a whole new set of shapes. On “Lonlon,” Kidjo delivered her original lyrics for Maurice Ravel’s Bolero with the requisite dynamic calibration. She was at her Parisian best on “La Foule,” which set the chanson standard indelibly linked to Piaf to a galloping vals Peruano groove. And her Yoruban lyric for a theme from Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 5, recited by Ma in English beforehand, transformed the melody into a supplication for the safety of girls in conflict zones.
Read MoreAn eternal “it girl” — charismatic, original and ahead of every curve right up until she died this year aged 78 — British singer-songwriter-actor Marianne Faithfull receives a fulsome, loving tribute with sui generis cinematic whatsit Broken English.
Read MoreU2 might have the reputation of putting too much religious iconography beside many of their hits, but it makes complete sense why Bono refers to many of their songs as such when listening to a track like this. Nothing about it is meant to be religious in any way, but in terms of human connection and how we all relate to each other in this thing called life, this is practically a hymn for anyone wanting to see the world turn into a better place.
Read MoreSari Schorr has embarked on The Unbreakable Tour 2025, marking a year of exciting firsts and highly anticipated returns.
The tour will see Schorr headlining her very first show in Ireland at the renowned Harvest Time Blues Festival, making her debut in Denmark at the prestigious Blues Heaven Festival, and performing for the first time in Croatia at Boogalooin Zagreb. Beyond these debuts, The Unbreakable Tour 2025 will take her extensively across Germany, with long-awaited returns to Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, along with special stops in Budapest and Bratislava.With each performance, Schorr continues to build an international reputation for her powerful voice and commanding stage presence, promising audiences unforgettable moments on every stage she graces.
Carly Simon is regarded as one of the most celebrated female voices in pop music history, both for her pioneering work as a songwriter and for her slew of hit singles. While Simon hasn’t released a new album in more than 15 years, she remains a legend and is highly regarded, especially among fellow singer-songwriters. Thanks to an exciting recent re-release of one of her most popular tunes, Simon is back on the charts in the United Kingdom — not with something brand new, but rather with a decades-old cut that has found a second life.
Read MoreBetween the 1960s and ’70s, Kris Kristofferson and Roy Orbison moved within the same musical circles, crossed paths, and always had a mutual respect for one another. “Roy Orbison was one of the genuinely nicest persons I’ve ever known,” said Kristofferson.
By the mid-1970s, as Kristofferson’s career was thriving as a songwriter and actor, he wrote one song specifically for Orbison, a fellow—and newly returned—Monument Records artist, in 1976.
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