If the names don’t immediately ring bells, their contributions to decades of American music most certainly do.
Big Star
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Rob Ross
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As time passes, it gets harder to write about something you love, especially like a band – you veer between adoration, hero worship, teen obsession, musician’s arrogance and then rationality…
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Ken Shane
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A new box-set delves deeper into the Stax catalog than any previous reissue
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Rob Ross
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Dear God, this is amazing. Not because it’s Big Star – let’s make one thing clear from the outset: I don’t like live albums as a rule of thumb; I…
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So there have been a few occasions where I had been asked to write about Chris Bell’s I Am The Cosmos album – and I’ve done it. Having bought the…
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This wonderful, 22-track compilation is just part of the work Chris Bell did before he dug his heels in with Big Star in 1971. Omnivore Recordings has gathered selections from…
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Radio City with Jon Grayson and Rob Ross: Seventeen Seconds… (!) Once again, Jon and Rob sit down and get it done – a freeform, thoughtful and insightful conversation about…
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Rob Ross
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So here’s the short version – Stax Records, in conjunction with Ardent, has finally released a sensible compilation of Big Star’s best moments – even though there have been several…
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Rob Ross
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Radio City with Jon Grayson and Rob Ross hits hard and heavy – naturally! This week, Messrs. Grayson and Ross run the gamut from the never-ending political upheavals; new albums…
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Rob Ross
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Forget objectivity, because you won’t find it here – not from me. And certainly not about these live, orchestral, all-star performances of Big Star’s Third album, plus many of the…
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Matthew Bolin
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The first article in the new series “Over the Covers” focuses on artists who re-recorded their own songs, thereby covering themselves.
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Two years ago, Popdose introduced you to The Legal Matters, the brilliant Michigan-based trio of Keith Klingensmith, Chris Richards and Andy Reed. Their self-titled debut was easily one of the…
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Rob Ross
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This beautiful, hard-cover coffee table book is the result of a five year labor of love from publisher Fabrice Couillerot and photographer Donna Ranieri. The first authorized monograph of Memphis’…
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Rob Ross
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The first thing I want to disclose before going further is to say that in the canon of the three albums Big Star, one of my favorite bands (and part…
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Rob Ross
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You may be tired of me saying “I’m not going to pretend to be objective”, but what’s the point of a review if you’re not being honest? We’ve already been…
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Rob Ross
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When Burger Records released the “Lucky Guy”/”Fool Of Myself” single last year, I was thrilled to share it with you here. Now, the first official video from the upcoming self-titled…
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Rob Ross
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I’m not going to pretend to be cool, professional or objective – this album is simply stunning. And for all the right reasons. If you could find a single place…
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I love this band and I’m not ashamed to admit it. It doesn’t make me biased – if anything, it makes me want to see/hear them stretch themselves into a…
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First, I’ll let you freak out over some of the names of the players who make up the current incarnation of The Orange Humble Band: Darryl Mather, the mind behind…
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Rob Ross
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This is something very special; very powerful and totally from the heart. Memphis legends Vicki Loveland and Van Duren, collectively known as Loveland Duren, release their new single, “Johnny Boy”…
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Rob Ross
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One of the band’s I’ve grown fond of over the last two or three years is Durham, North Carolina’s The Old Ceremony – I’ve seen singer/guitarist Django Haskins perform several…
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Rob Ross
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What can be said about the work of Chris Stamey that hasn’t already been said? The brilliance and precision of his writing and song-crafting style is something to be marveled…
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You are going to love this. Seriously. I’m not gushing or emitting any kind of bluster or hyperbole. From the moment those chiming notes from Luther Russell’s guitar come ringing…
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If there’s one album that I can automatically point to/at which helped me – helped to shape me as a songwriter and start to hone my craft by way of…
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As I did with the recent re-issues of Big Star’s #1 Record and Radio City, I went into listening and watching Live In Memphis with open mind and fresh ears, especially since…
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