The first week of October has historically brought about some of the greatest losses in music history across all genres and decades.
Harvey Kubernik's new book, “1967: a Complete Rock Music History of the Summer of Love," tracks the iconic moments and movements of that pivotal time in pop culture. In the summer of 1967, music and ...
It was a year in which the underground bubbled up into the mainstream like a cosmic oil strike, a new breed of rock ’n’ roll serving as the derrick siphoning the fuel for a cultural revolution from ...
Enchanted by the sitar ever since he had his first cursory dabble (the story goes, that this happened during the making of the Beatles’ second movie Help!), George was eager to lay his guitar to one ...
On October 3, 1967, the world lost a pioneering folk icon just as his music was reaching a new audience, thanks to the 1960s folk revival.
Listen To This Eddie is a weekly column that examines the important people and events in the classic rock canon and how they continue to impact the world of popular music. 1967 is the peak moment of ...
SAN FRANCISCO — When you’re rocking out to Metallica at Outside Lands in San Francisco in August, or perhaps grooving to some hipster-approved dance-pop act at Southern California’s Coachella come ...
Country music singer George Morgan was interviewed by host Bob Loflin of WSM-Radio on Jan. 4 during a segment of “The Sound of Nashville.” Morgan had just switched from Columbia Records to the Starday ...
It wasn't sweet music that brought Martha Reeves to the microphone at the Fox Theatre that day in July 1967; it was brutal reality. Detroit was burning. Headlining a string of shows for a hometown ...