4/27/2010
Not everyone escapes the curse of the Best New Artist GRAMMYr, but Bruce Hornsby has done it handily. The upbeat melody and arrangement for the title track from The Way It Is masks a social crit …
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4/27/2010
The anthemic "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" stands as one of Gordon Lightfoot's most enduring songs, breathtaking in its scope. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is the most popular historically based …
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4/27/2010
Instantaneously recognizable to nearly anyone who's tuned in to FM frequencies, Foghat cuts such as "Fool for the City," "Slow Ride," and a raucously steamy cover of the blues standard "I Just Want to …
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4/27/2010
After storming the R&B world in the mid-'90s with the double-edged sword of genius and controversy, R. Kelly set about consolidating his reputation as a superstar by showing his colors as a writer and …
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4/27/2010
Cover bands and Canadians take note: you, too, could enjoy a future topping charts and monopolizing the memory banks of rock radio-listeners with your singles. Just look at Nickelback, who went from ro …
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4/27/2010
revealing the band's way with tender melodies via reflective songs like "If Today Was Your Last Today" from 2008's Dark Horse, produced by famed AC/DC and Def Leppard collaborator Mutt Lange, wh …
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4/27/2010
KISS was never just a band; the group is nothing short of an experience, a movement, a lifestyle - essentially everything that's good, bad, 'n' lusty about adolescence. You can bang your head to …
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4/27/2010
Lick It Up (1983) is a landmark KISS LP: the first album packaged without their trademark make-up. Fact is, the lack of greasepaint worked, breathing new life into the band and refueling their a …
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4/27/2010
In the history of electric blues, Willie Dixon stands as The Man - likely more responsible for the sound of Chicago blues than anyone (and by anyone, we mean folks with names like King, Waters, …
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