By Rick Clark
Recording
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...
Recording
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.
Recording
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.
SFP
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,...
Recording
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...
Recording
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...
Recording
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...
Recording
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...
Recording
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...
Recording
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
Recording
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...
Recording
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
Recording
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...