If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the... →
Anne Lamott
I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.
Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was... →
Jon Landau
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked... →
'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit... →
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most... →
Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has... →
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the... →
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's... →