14 Nov, 2019 | Easy Listening, Oldies & Soundtracks
What can you do? Some songs just fly towards you, drill into your musical consciousness – and trigger something in you. Music can do that. Maybe only the music. Sometimes it’s great compositions, sometimes sad melodies and sometimes it’s rhythms and...
4 Nov, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
You don’t have to like the steam hammer disco sound of chic. But: The groove that the band around guitarist Nile Rogers and bassist Bernard Edwards instigated was unrivalled. Maybe even to this day. Rarely has one heard such a compelling drive, such a well-oiled...
29 Oct, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
What music can do. It can give you energy, it can supply you with adrenaline, it can calm you down or make you aggressive. And it can comfort you. Country star and super guitarist Vince Gill has released one of the most beautiful and touching consolations on the 2006...
22 Oct, 2019 | Jazz, Soul & Blues
Be careful, kitsch alert! “No Sympahty” from the 1981 Lee Ritenour album “R.I.T.” comes so soft and gentle and, okay, snivelling that a pack of handkerchiefs should be within reach when listening to it. If you don’t have a problem with...
15 Oct, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
The first chords of the acoustic guitar are still reminiscent of the Oasis classic “Wonderwall”. But that will soon be over. After a few more bars and the first verse of “Famous Last Words” the chorus lights up – and you think of the...
8 Oct, 2019 | Jazz, Soul & Blues
Somewhere I read that Jimi Hendrix was an early fan of Bill Gibbons, the guitarist of ZZ Top. It’s easy to imagine. The full-bodied musician plays an impudently cool and bluesy guitar. An absolute master of reduction. He also proves this in the not so well known...
21 Sep, 2019 | Jazz, Soul & Blues
A voice like a force of nature. Black, powerful, soulful, bluesy. Everything there. Nevertheless, Jess Roden from the British Kidderminster, who in reality is quite white, remained an absolute insider’s tip throughout his career – which, after all, started...
5 Sep, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
Who remembers the band Mr. Mister? With “Broken Wings” and “Kyrie” Richard Page and Steve George, the two heads behind Mr. Mister, had top hits worldwide. But as fast as the band showed up and conquered the charts, as fast they disappeared...
14 Aug, 2019 | Country, Folk & Americana
When Brad Paisley released the album “Mud On The Tires” in 2003, he was still quite far away from superstar status, his popularity as a CMA Awards host, Grammys and private jet. In the early 2000s, the smart guitarist and singer was still considered a...
1 Aug, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
Admittedly, “Tin Soldier” is not exactly what you might call a rare pearl. The song was a hit for the Small Faces, on Youtube almost six million watched their performance on French television. Those who see and hear the performance of the four Small Faces...
16 Jul, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
A good song always sounds good. Even without a big arrangement and without opulent accompaniment. A really good song sounds good even if it is performed with guitar and vocals only … …I was able to experience that in 2014 in a small club in Leiper’s...
10 Jul, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
In 1982 Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen took a solo break. Why? After all, his album “The Nightfly” hardly sounded any different than the albums he recorded with his Steely Dan special Walter Becker. But that doesn’t mean that “The...
9 Jul, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
In 1980 the Australian Peter Allen released the album “Bi-Coastal”. The work produced by David Foster featured everything that was good and expensive in Los Angeles in terms of musicians and songwriters … …Toto members Steve Lukather and Jeff...
6 Jun, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
The profession of music journalist already has its advantages. You can get in touch with your personal musician heroes, never pay a cent for a concert ticket – and you always get unsolicited CDs sent to you, sometimes from completely unknown but great bands. For...
6 Jun, 2019 | Rock, Pop & Dance
Airplay was cult. A must-have album for every halfway ambitious musician in the early 80s. Airplay – that was guitarist Jay Graydon and keyboard player David Foster. Two master musicians. Two studio freaks. Two brilliant producers and top songwriters. So they...
