LITTLE RICHARD WAS ROCK AND ROLL’S MISSING INGREDIENT James Campion May 17, 2020 Features, Goings-On, Interviews “I could do Little Richard’s voice, which is a wild, hoarse, screaming thing, it’s like an out-of-body experience. You have to leave your current sensibilities and go about a foot above your head to sing it.” ...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Jazz, Jimi And Americana Mike Greenblatt April 9, 2014 Columns “Genius” is probably the most over-used word in any critic’s vocabulary, but in the case of Seattle saxophonist Steve Treseler, it’s apt. Center Song (Creative Music Adventures), by the Steve Treseler Group...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Leonard Cohen Is My Man Mike Greenblatt October 24, 2012 Columns 1 Longtime music journalist Sylvie Simmons has achieved the highly improbable: Her new book, I’m Your Man: The Life Of Leonard Cohen (Ecco/HarperCollins) is such a tremendous artistic/literary success that it...
Jimi Hendrix: South Saturn Delta & Various Arists: Power Of Soul: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix Mike Greenblatt May 25, 2011 Albums Lucky for us, Jimi Hendrix was so obsessed with studio possibilities that he left enough music to still last years. Originally released in 1997, South Saturn Delta includes fascinating experiments and alter...
Jimi Hendrix: West Coast Seattle Boy – The Jimi Hendrix Anthology Mike Greenblatt December 8, 2010 Albums This is the box fans have been salivating over in anticipation. We knew it was there. We just didn’t know when it would ever come out. The turning point came when Jimi’s sister, Janie, took control of the h...
Various Artists: This Is The Blues (Volumes I, II, III & IV) Mike Greenblatt September 8, 2010 Albums Let’s get one thing straight. This is not the blues. This is, for the most part, British Blues Rock: and a damn fine jam of a time with odd pairings of all kinds of great musicians, and for that it’s a stone c...
