Best Classic Bands | Jeff Tamarkin, Author at Best Classic Bands

Tension was in the air in 1968 and rock music reflected the turmoil. Then came a voice from the past, gently singing of non-violence and hope.

Nobody says groovy anymore. But there was a time when they said it a lot–and sang it too. Here are some of the grooviest songs you’ve ever heard.

“We believed the song should have that same excitement of when we played live,” he says, on recording the big DC5 hits like “Glad All Over.”

The guitarist, singer and songwriter formed the British blues band in London in 1965. “When I started, all the club bands were playing Motown”

Although she never made the Billboard charts, she was highly respected and consistently prolific for more than 50 years.

Formed by blues fanatics in 1966 and gone by ’68, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker redefined what a rock band was capable of doing.

In 2015, the ABB mainstay was leading his own band and released a killer live album. This conversation with the legend has never before been seen.

There was much more to this genre-defying band than “Hot Rod Lincoln.” Here is the back story of a truly versatile and unique group.

Frank Sinatra did not love rock music, but for his 1968 TV special he sang along with soul-pop hitmakers the Fifth Dimension and fit right in.

For their third studio album, the band knew that it wanted no two songs to sound alike. The result: no two songs sounded alike.

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