Facing the new decade, the legendary Warren Zevon had a tough act to follow…his third album, 1978’s Excitable Boy , had yielded a Top...

The tragic death of his brother Duane in October 1971 had a profound effect on Gregg Allman , who would develop an often-times debilitating ...

Mick Abrahams was Jethro Tull’s original axeman, splitting after Tull’s 1968 debut LP This Was over arguments with bandleader Ian A...

In 1973, British teens were deeply in the grip of “glam-rock,” with David Bowie and Marc Bolan of T.Rex sitting atop of a cultural ph...

Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys were a bunch of roots-rockers from New York City, playing what I’d call “hippie music,” i.e. an i...

Blind Faith was one of the classic rock era’s first ‘supergroups’, comprised of members of the chart-busting blues-rock band Cream (guitaris...

Memphis music legend Don Nix made his bones as part of the Stax Records family tree. He wrote the blues standard “Going Down” which, althou...

Widely-considered as the “Godfathers of Power-Pop,” Badfinger ’s storied career dated back to the early 1960s. Formed in 1961, the band...

If Black Sabbath ’s self-titled debut album, released in February 1970, was a shot across the bow of music biz politesse, then their s...

Rock ‘n’ roll legend Leon Russell began his career as an in-demand session musician, playing on albums by artists like Jan & Dean...

Long before he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Leon Russell began his career as a well-respected session musician...

Six-string wunderkind Tommy Bolin made his bones as a teenager playing with the blues-rock band Zephyr in Boulder, Colorado. Although...

The bottles were all empty and the lights were being turned out by the time that Be-Bop Deluxe made their way to the early ‘70s Briti...