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Doctor Feelgood evolved out of Boston’s North Shore music scene of the early 60s with Cooper, Corelle, and Winters having played i...

In a career spanning seven decades, there’s little Gary Wright hasn’t accomplished.  Having earned a role on Broadway before hitt...

The Diamond Reo band was founded in 1974 by Frank Zuri, Bob McKeag, Norman Nardini and Robbie Johns. McKeag and Zuri played togeth...

Guitarist John Ussery wrote almost all the songs, and he is a functional blues player with an appropriately slightly scratchy voic...

On April 24, 1971, the San Francisco Examiner ran a piece titled “The Hit That Isn't a Record.” It was about an unsigned local...

I can remember seeing a while back an old reprint of advertisement for the Beatles Apple label, showing a one man band who in the ad ...

A curious mix of white-boy boogie-funk and more rural material, reminiscent of Leon Russell and Little Feat, with Wayne Berry appa...

Although our hometown Corpus Christi is somewhat isolated on the Texas coast, in the 1960s it had a very active local music scene, wh...

Although they were blessed with two excellent in-house songwriters (Wayne Proctor and Tommy Talton) and produced several above-the...

Audience rose from the ashes of a semi-professional soul band named Lloyd Alexander Real Estate, which had included all the Audience...

"The House on the Hill"  is maybe Audience's strongest effort, made up of simple, elegantly arranged songs, focusing aro...

Before I Forget… was recorded at Pepper Studios, The first side of the album contains five songs. The opener is a marvellous effor...

Geez, its amazing how many horn bands seemed to have been given a chance to record in the wake of Blood, Sweat and Tears late- 196...

Though chiefly remembered for their UK No.3 hit, "Resurrection Shuffle", the careers of Ashton, Gardner & Dyke stret...

Hardin's best-known compositions -- "If I Were a Carpenter," "Reason to Believe," and "Lady Came From Ba...