By Rick Clark
Profiles
Roxy Music’s “Avalon”
Nineteen eighty-two was a time when predictions of the death of album rock and the tandem ascendance of MTV and CHR (Contemporary Hits Radio...
Live Sound
5.1 Recording Vibes With ESE
The dusk outside the Marin County, Calif., studio The Site was magical, with deep reds, oranges and grays mixed with clouds, mist from billowing...
Profiles
Classic Tracks: David Bowie’s “Five Years”/”Soul Love”/”Moonage Daydream”
Much has been written about the importance of David Bowie's album Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars.
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Jack Emerson, 1961-2003
On November 22, 2003, one of Nashville's best-loved visionaries in the rock and alt-country communities, Jack Emerson, passed away from a heart attack.
Films-TV
Heartworn Highways
During the early 1970s, while rock music was shooting for the arenas and pop was entering a seemingly committed phase of disposable one-hit wonders,...
Profiles
Jack Clement
Not too many people can claim to have worked with a range of artists that includes legendary rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, singer/songwriter Townes Van...
Profiles
Remembering Sam Phillips
“He potentially changed every life on this planet simply by recording music. I certainly have other heroes in life, but I've never met a...
Profiles
Radio! Radio!
In the late '70s, radio began to look like a buy for investors and large companies, and soon, it's spirit seemed to suffocate under...
Profiles
Classic Tracks: The MC5’s “Kick Out the Jams”
One band that distilled the brutal essence of rock's primal roar to its most fearless, floor-shaking manifestation was the Motor City Five, better known...
Live Sound
India.Arie
One of the strongest debut releases to emerge from the R&B world during the past couple of years is Acoustic Soul by Atlanta-based artist...
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Gus Dudgeon, 1942-2002
On July 21, 2002, the music world lost one of its finest production talents when Gus Dudgeon and his wife Sheila died in a...
Profiles
The Gospel According to Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton's flamboyant, exaggerated, country girl-meets-Hollywood look is one of the most identifiable in American culture. A less-talented or savvy
Profiles
Composer Spotlight
Film composer Gary Chang has always had an active interest in ambient and minimalist music and the possibilities of expanding the potential of the...
Profiles
American Roots on PBS
It's a great time for American Roots music. With the multi-Platinum success of the soundtrack for O Brother, Where Art Thou? and accelerating interest
Profiles
Billy Bob Thornton
If you are going to add music, the key is that it should support the emotion that you are already feeling. When you get...
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