Posts From Jeff Tamarkin
Harp On It: 20 Great Rock Songs Featuring Harmonica
The harmonica has long been used—particularly by lead singers—to inject a bit of bluesy, earthy authenticity into a song. We look at some of the best.
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74 From 1974: The Albums We Listened To
A vast variety of sounds appealed to rock fans at that time, and still does.
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Remembering Joe Cocker: Rock’s Soulful Interpreter
His gift was that among all the British R&B belters, he may have been the most ballsy and uninhibited of them all and an outstanding interpreter of songs.
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Dave Clark Is Still Glad All Over—An Interview With the British Invasion Legend
“Ed Sullivan contacted us, but I’d never heard of him so I turned it down. Then, I found out he was huge. I said to the guys, “Quit your jobs.”
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1969’s Ill-Fated Altamont Festival: One of Rock’s Darkest Days
December 6, 1969, marked one of rock’s bleakest days. The free concert known as Altamont was an unmitigated disaster as everything that could possibly go wrong did.
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1967: The Year in 50 Classic Rock Albums
It was the year that the rock album came of age, with timeless releases from the Beatles, Dylan & Stones alongside newcomers Jimi Hendrix, the Doors & more
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The Mamas & the Papas’ ‘Creeque Alley’: Behind the Song
The lyrics are stocked with names and places, some of which may have been (and still are) unfamiliar to fans of the group. We break it down
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Peggy Caserta, Janis Joplin’s Biographer & Lover, Dies
The book, titled ‘Going Down With Janis,’ was considered controversial due to the public’s lack of awareness of Joplin having had a same-sex relationship.
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Tina Turner After Ike: The ’80s Comeback
She will long be remembered as one of the most sensational, daring and courageous women in the world of rock ’n’ roll.
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Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Psychedelic ‘Incense & Peppermints’
Trivia note: The singer on one of the biggest and most memorable hits of 1967 was not even a band member. Check out the whole back story here.
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