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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
Pretty much everybody wants to play with Clapton, and some of his peak moments have come in the company of pop music's brightest stars. Forty years after joining forces in the supergroup Blind Faith, h …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
It's pretty easy to understand why the chalk-scrawled legend "Clapton Is God" kept popping up all over London in the late '60s and early '70s. After all, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's first triple-i …
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Genres & History
1/18/2011
It's all about the improv; that's what distinguishes jazz from most other pop music. And you can pick your fave instrument for solos: guitar, sax, horn, keyboards, even bass. There are ensembles and so …
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Genres & History
1/18/2011
No survey of the past century's music would be complete if it ignored the advent of electronics and the rise of technological developments that changed the manner in which at least some of the recent p …
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Genres & History
1/18/2011
Now that its final note has been written, we can look back at the 20th century and try to make sense of what often seemed chaotic or strange . . . but always promising, and relentlessly new. Just as th …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
Hall & Oates wasn't solely about R&B. At one time or another, the duo tested a wide range of musical frequencies, from delicate acoustic folk - "Southeast City Window" from 1972 debut Whole Oats …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
With Daryl's falsetto and John's smooth baritone in the spotlight, Hall & Oates dominated the blue-eyed soul airwaves for well over a decade. It would come as no surprise to find out that, back in the …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
In Johnny Cash's world, Daddy may have sung bass, but Johnny sang just about everything else, sometimes in the company of rather surprising musical partners. With a few lines lifted from British folk a …
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Artist Essentials
1/18/2011
They called Johnny Cash the Man in Black - and not just because he swaddled himself in dark clothing. No, that blackness went deeper than his outfit, penetrating his skin and burrowing right down into …
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