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3/31/2010
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3/31/2010
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Genres & History
3/30/2010
Motown legend Stevie Wonder had been showing signs of funk going back to the days of the teasing, blue-note harmonica solo in "Fingertips," but in Talking Book's "Maybe Your Baby," it's struttin …
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Genres & History
3/30/2010
Like soul, funk is something you either have or you don't. But unlike soul, you don't wanna - no, you don't dare - let your funk loose in polite company. If soul can be found in a Baptist …
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Genres & History
3/30/2010
It was billed as "The Sound of Young America," but the growing Motown label was being modest: in truth, the imprint's output was the sound of all America, with sparkly soul hits that appealed to …
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Genres & History
3/30/2010
Like Charlie Daniels had promised so many years before, "The South's gonna do it again." While the battle-scarred Allmans and Skynyrd staggered into the '90s as original members wore away like snakeski …
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Genres & History
3/30/2010
As the Woodstock nation hoofed it on back to its home territories, a sound as Southern as hooch and hound dogs reemerged, like cicadas after a long slumber, out of Macon, Georgia, headquarters to Capri …
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Artist Essentials
3/30/2010
Jackson Browne has been a potent songwriter since the Velvet Underground's Nico recognized his talent as a teenager in Greenwich Village. Four decades later, he's an ageless singer/songwriter who trans …
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Artist Essentials
3/30/2010
"Hail, hail rock and roll!" Chuck Berry sings on "School Day," the opening track on his 1957 debut album. And what a fine exhortation it is, coming from a giant of a man who helped introduce this rolli …
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