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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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