Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt October 17, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll In Tribute Was there ever a more enigmatic American songwriter than Fred Neil? Born in Ohio, raised in Florida, he died at age 65 in 2001 from skin cancer. As a Brill Building composer, his songs were...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt October 10, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Black Eyed Wonder Pea Jazz When the Black Eyed Peas hit No. 1 in 2003 with “Where Is The Love?” they had no idea 15 years later it would be turned into a hot six-minute jazz jam. When Stev...
Rant’n’Roll – One-On-One With Edgar Winter Mike Greenblatt October 3, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll He came out of Beaumont Texas fully formed. His older brother Johnny Winter was the guitarist of the family so he just figured he’d play “everything else.” And he did. In their first band tog...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt September 26, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Rattle and Hum The 10 originals on the 66-minute Pay For It On The Other Side (McCannic Music) by Wisconsin guitarist/composer Pete McCann, 52, his sixth album, puts jazz-rock fusion in a ...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt September 19, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Return of a Jazz-Rock Fusion Pioneer Where has the pioneering Jan Hammer been for the last decade? As a member of John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra in the ‘70s, he set new keyboard standards. When he pl...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt September 12, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Lock Up The Liquor! Any band that takes for its name a 1961 Howlin’ Wolf song written by the legendary Willie Dixon is alright with me. With 15 tracks all written, produced, arranged, per...
Rant’n’Roll – New Orleans Royalty Mike Greenblatt September 5, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Bethlehem, Pa.— It poured on us during Galactic’s set but I actually enjoyed it. The day before I had made a pilgrimage back to the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival researching my upcoming...
Rant’n’Roll – Back To Woodstock…49 Years Later Mike Greenblatt August 29, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll “If I could I surely would stand on the rock that Moses stood.”—Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1915 The lyrics to that old gospel song “Mary Don’t You Weep” kept running through my head. I knew it ...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt August 22, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll CeltGrass Haven by We Banjo 3 from Ireland is a fusion of world, bluegrass, Celtic, Americana, country and Irish folk music. This eclectic string band, made up of consummate musicians on gui...
Rant’n’Roll Mike Greenblatt August 15, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Bessie Smith Princeton guitarist/vocalist Rory Block, 68, is a blues-woman for the ages, keeping the rural blues alive for new generations. She’s already recorded wonderful tributes to th...
