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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
They came together in 1965, from many different directions, united at a crossroads in sunny San Francisco where chaos and beauty, spirituality and upheaval all coexisted. In short order, thanks to earl …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
With and without her trusty Pips, Gladys Knight has spent the past 45 years adding church-bred sophistication and grace to heartbreaking ballads like "Neither One of Us" and sweat-soaked dance-floor st …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
Few outfits nailed a tropical R&B groove better than Harry Wayne "KC" Casey, partner Richard Finch, and their dance-happy Sunshine Band, which became a cornerstone of the "Miami Sound." The band, which …
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Genres & History
5/12/2009
A time for bad hair, baggy shirts, and drug abuse, the Romantic period (1820-1910) saw composition become increasingly introspective and self-indulgent. Berlioz kicked off with a prodigious opium habit …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
Big and brash, Bessie Smith tore through a song like nobody's business. In the '20s, she lived a hard life full of booze and sex and love gone wrong - and sang about all of it with a full-throated sass …
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Genres & History
5/12/2009
The beauty of '60s rock is the fact it was all over the map, an aural "Magic Carpet Ride" emanating from the tiny transistor radio under your pillow. Emerging from the innocent Brill Building girl grou …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
Listen to the slashing slide and Delta-driven vocal attack of the man most responsible for changing the course of Chicago blues. Muddy's ensemble was peerless, a well-oiled machine that swung effortles …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
The waltz-tempo "Runnin' Down the Street" - written by the Guess Who's Jim Kale and Garry Peterson - owes a debt to Burt Bacharach, splitting the difference between the band's earlier hit "These Eyes" …
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Artist Essentials
5/12/2009
Sure, Canada had rock bands before the Guess Who, but Burton and the boys were the first one that mattered, especially south of the border. And how big were they in Canada? Their 2003 reunion sh …
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