Leslie West – Look To The Wind
When Leslie West Turned Toward the Wind and Helped Shape the Future of Hard Rock In the late nineteen sixties, American rock music was evolving rapidly. Blues, psychedelia, and the…
When Leslie West Turned Toward the Wind and Helped Shape the Future of Hard Rock In the late nineteen sixties, American rock music was evolving rapidly. Blues, psychedelia, and the…
When Mountain Took the Stage: Leslie West’s Commanding Guitar in “Get Out My Life Woman” at the Capitol Theater, 1973 In 1973, the American hard rock band Mountain delivered a…
When Rock Mischief Meets Live Television: The Night Rick Parfitt Crashed the Drum Kit on Top of the Pops In the long history of British rock television, few moments capture…
When Jazz Rock Intelligence Met Early Seventies Energy: Steely Dan Bring “Reelin’ in the Years” to Television The early rise of Steely Dan remains one of the most fascinating stories…
A Final Conversation with a Master of Strings: Remembering David Lindley Through One of His Last Interviews In the final years of his life, the legendary multi instrumentalist David Lindley…
A Daughter’s Farewell to a Pop Legend: Dara Sedaka’s Emotional Tribute to Neil Sedaka The passing of legendary American singer songwriter Neil Sedaka has prompted an outpouring of emotion across…
When Pop Meets Impressionism: Neil Sedaka Reimagines Debussy’s Clair de Lune on the London Stage At the historic Shaftesbury Theatre in London, veteran singer and songwriter Neil Sedaka presented a…
Inside the Mind of Warren Zevon: A Rare 2002 Conversation on Songwriting, Mortality, and Musical Roots In 2002, American singer songwriter Warren Zevon sat down with filmmaker Nick Read for…
David Lindley’s Unscripted Tribute to Warren Zevon at the Fretboard Journal In December 2014, the offices of the guitar publication Fretboard Journal witnessed a small but memorable musical moment when…
Thunder at Crosley Field: Mountain Deliver a Fierce “Dreams of Milk and Honey” at the 1970 Midsummer Rock Festival On June 13, 1970, Cincinnati became the site of one of…