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After forming as a British blues band in the late ’60s, Fleetwood Mac evolved into one of the most influential rock groups of the ’70s. Not only did they write some of the decade’s most indelible songs—and release one of the best-selling albums of all time, 1977’s Rumours —but the troupe created a distinctive “California sound ...
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. They call them classic-blues singers – women like Ida Cox, Sippie Wallace and Bessie Smith, who sang their way into musical history during the blues boom of the Twenties. The truth is that most of them were simply vaudevillians whose record companies steered them in a popular direction, and the results were often rendered ...
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (born Elizabeth Nevills in 1893) bought her first guitar with money she saved up as a 12-year-old domestic servant earning $1 a month in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The instrument, which she called Stella, cost $3.75, and it gave Cotten, who had been playing her brother’s banjo and guitar, a ...
Countless vocal groups modelled themselves after the Ink Spots. With a high-flying tenor floating above their tight harmonies, the Ink Spots were the predecessors of doo-wop. They became so popular that all-white venues integrated to get them in their lineup, a rare occurrence in the Forties. Bill Kenny. Charlie Fuqua. Deek Watson. Jerry Daniels.
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. “Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing,” Ray Charles has said. “It’s just a question of whether you’re talkin’ about a woman or God.”. It was the way Ray Charles melded the passion of gospel with the pain of the blues, as both a vocalist and pianist, that prompted Frank ...
Miles Davis made waves in the jazz world that rippled throughout rock. Though he may be a jazz icon, Davis’s influence on rock and roll is undeniable. His love of pushing the envelope and experimentation with rock rhythms have influenced punk-funk, grunge and more. Miles Davis. Herbie Hancock Inducts Miles Davis.
HALL OF FAME ESSAY. By Nina Pearlman. The word pioneers is regularly used to describe the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and with good reason: The band—which today consists of Anthony Kiedis on vocals; Michael Balzary, long known to fans as Flea, on bass; Chad Smith on drums; and recent addition Josh Klinghoffer on guitar—birthed a blend of punk ...
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