For over 30 years, guitarist Alex Lifeson has quietly served as the cohesive key to success for progressive rockers Rush – arguably the most enduring and successful hard-rock band of all time. A guitarist always more interested in finding the right chord voicing or textural effect to make a chorus work than in shredding the frets off his axe du ...
, harmonica, b. 1940) Rush’s mix of vaudeville stage antics and soul-blues grooves has made him the king of the modern chitlin circuit. Born in Homer, Louisiana, Rush moved with his family to Chicago in 1953, already mesmerized by Muddy Waters and Louis Jordan. He emerged from the West Side blues scene in the 1960s and his ...
(Guitar, vocals, b. 1934) Rush, who was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi, was – along with Buddy Guy and Magic Sam – part of the defining trinity of Chicago’s West Side sound. His 1950s Cobra Records singles ‘All Your Love (I Miss Loving)’ and ‘I Can’t Quit You Baby’ became standards. Rush is undoubtedly a genius, ...
(1976) and A Farewell To Kings (1977). Permanent Waves (1980) and Moving Pictures (1981) were punchier and new wave influenced. After the extensive use of synthesizers in the mid-1980s, Rush returned to their roots in the 1990s. Styles & Forms | Seventies | Rock Personalities | Boz Scaggs | Seventies | Rock ...
Few would deny that the blues has played a more important role in the history of popular culture than any other musical genre. As well as being a complete art form in itself, it is a direct ancestor to the different types of current popular music we know and love today. Without the blues there would have been no Beatles ...
Micaëla arrive. Frightened, she hides when José fires at an intruder. It is Escamillo, who is looking for Carmen. José challenges him to a knife-fight and the smugglers rush on and separate them. Wooing Carmen, Escamillo invites them all to his next fight in Seville. He leaves and Micaëla is discovered. José still declares that he will never ...
Flying Dutchman and prays for his salvation, hoping herself to be his saviour. Erik overhears and, entering, announces that Daland’s ship has been sighted. While the girls rush off to greet their sweethearts, Erik asks Senta to agree to their marriage. Avoiding the question, she suggests that they go and greet Daland. Erik is annoyed by ...
The ‘countess’ sings of her homeland, Orlofsky proposes a toast to ‘King Champagne’ and the guests drunkenly promise eternal friendship. As the clock strikes six, Eisenstein and Frank rush out. Act III The drunken jailer Frosch is disturbed by Alfred’s singing. Adele has followed Frank, hoping to impress him with her acting talents. Eisenstein finally turns up at ...
Yeroshka lead Galitsky’s followers in praising their master’s profligacy. He has abducted a local girl and now describes the life his men would lead if he ruled the city. Women rush in, protesting against the abduction, but they are driven away when Galitsky refuses to hand her back. Singing his praises again, the men decide that Igor should ...
Blues. Strehli, who was born in Lubbock, perfected her slow phrasing and dynamic attack at the famed Antone’s nightclub, learning from visiting artists Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Albert Collins and Albert King. She helped to start the influential Antone’s record label. In recent years Strehli has incorporated more 1940s and 1950s R&B influences into her music. ...
, Scholz considered the follow up, Don’t Look Back, which appeared in 1978 – when a two-year gap between albums was regarded as excessive – to be a rush job for which he blamed record company Epic. Exactly duplicating its predecessor’s formula, the album sold seven million copies. Eight years later, Boston’s next album, Third Stage ...
, the four claimed to live a comparatively clean lifestyle, and from very early on Coldplay found themselves dogged by accusations of being dull or ‘not rock’n’roll enough’. A Rush Of Sales Parachutes, Coldplay’s debut album from 2000, found the band and Martin in good voice, but spectres of college influences still hung over the work – ...
Elvis Aaron Presley was born in his family’s shot-gun shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, on 8 January 1935. His twin brother died at birth, and his mother doted on her sole son. He showed musical aptitude early, and loved to sing at the local First Assembly of God church. His mother, Gladys and father, Vernon, ...
up with, along with a Texas swagger that gave his playing a raucous edge. But it was hard for King and other young radicals like Buddy Guy and Otis Rush to break into a blues scene dominated by Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and harder still to get a record deal. When he finally landed one in 1960, ...
in Gilmer, Texas and learned guitar from his mother at age six. He moved to Chicago in 1950, earning a reputation among peers like Buddy Guy and Otis Rush with his gritty approach. His 1950s recordings for the Cobra label were not released, but King made his mark after signing with Cincinnati’s Federal/King Records in 1960. His Federal/King ...
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