Among the Musical
Tony SchermanThoroughly absorbing explorations of American music from an award-winning journalist. Name the genre—rock, folk, country, blues, jazz, Americana—I’ve been there, and I'm still journeying!
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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Part Two
Back in Episode 92 of “Among the Musical,” I wrote about hot women electric guitarists, whose number is growing slowly but surely, whether blues-rockers like Jackie Venson or multigenre searchers such as the Canadian Donna Grantis, who play...
The Aretha Series, Part Five: Unfinished Business
On the evenings of January 13th and 14th, 1972, before an overflow audience of 500, mostly congregants of the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, a somewhat down-at-heels former movie theater in Los Angeles’s Watts district, Aretha record...
The Aretha Series, Part 4: Black Music Power
If the violence and threats at the Miami convention represented the new Black Power’s toxic fringe, the movement as a whole had a progressive impact on America of the late Sixties and early Seventies, across the board. The Black Arts moveme...
The Aretha Series, Part 3: Running on Empty
BY APRIL 22, THE SINGLE “I NEVER LOVED A MAN” was #9 on Billboard‘s Hot 100, shortly to sell a million-plus copies. Defying conventional record-business wisdom (let a hit song run its course), Jerry Wexler let fly with “Respect” on April 13...
The Aretha Series, Part 2: What You Want, Baby I Got It
Note: After a rapid-fire series of disasters, culminating in a fistfight between Rick Hall and Ted White, Aretha left Fame music the morning after cutting “I Never Loved a Man,” never to return. She wanted to keep working with the Swampers,...
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In 40 years of award-winning writing about pop music, my goal has never strayed from giving my readers insight, information, and above all pleasure!
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