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5/12/2009
At a time when '60s-inspired sounds were mainly found in the West Coast's Paisley Underground, the Hoodoo Gurus popped up from Down Under to prove there was more to Aussie rock than Men At Work. While …
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5/12/2009
Kentucky boys Montgomery Gentry grew up on the sounds of Southern rock, outlaw country, and heavy metal in equal measure, and you can hear it all in their country-rocking hits. Troy and Eddie pay direc …
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5/12/2009
The multi-platinum hit machine of Montgomery Gentry roared into view at the end of the '90s, making the boot-scootin' sounds of Brooks & Dunn seem like just a polite prologue. Their rough-edged style i …
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5/12/2009
Some singers gently caress a ballad; saber-toothed soul tiger Wilson Pickett throttled it into submission. When he stepped away from his Southern home base to juice up Philly soul with producers Gamble …
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5/12/2009
Larger than life and twice as tough, Wilson Pickett was the Genghis Khan of soul, a warrior king whose mighty powers felled everything in his path. The years he spent pumping out towering tracks for At …
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5/12/2009
Welcome to Donna's Deep Cuts, and have we got some hot Summer goodness for you. Here's where we offer up the best of overlooked album tracks - the '40s-style time-traveler "I Remember Yesterday," an ed …
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5/12/2009
She was the Queen of Disco - a songstress supreme who launched a thousand mirror-ball moments, and almost as many smash-hit singles with tracks like the aptly named "Hot Stuff," the broken-hearted beat …
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5/12/2009
Just as tough girls the Runaways inspired generations of rockin' ladies, Joan Jett's engine was revved by the roughhouse rock 'n' roll heavyweights who came before her. Eddie Cochran's rockabilly origi …
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5/12/2009
With her biker-gal black-leather look, whiskey-and-cigarettes voice, and primal rock riffs, Joan Jett dragged rock's primordial goodness back to center stage when others were tarting things up with syr …
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