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ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons: The 1984 “Eliminator” Interview
Throughout its first seven albums, ZZ Top stayed close to its blues-rock boogie roots. The Texas trio then dramatically shifted gears for 1983’s Eliminator, adding layers of vocal effects, synthesizer, and drum machine.
At that time MTV wa...
Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers: The Making of an Album
Behind the Scenes of Their 1971 Sessions
Few guitarists in any genre have recorded as unique and thrilling an amplified guitar sound as Hound Dog Taylor. Using a four-pickup Japanese guitar, a damaged six-speaker model 1485 Sears Silverton...
Son House’s Handwritten Letter to Alan Lomax, 1943
Son House in Philadelphia. Photo by Dick Waterman. Used by permission.
Two of my previous posts cover the complete pre-war recording sessions of Son House. The two-part “The Great Mississippi Delta Blues Session” recounts how House, Willie...
Nils Lofgren on Playing With Bruce Springsteen, 1985
A few weeks before Bruce Springsteen began his 15-month “Born in the U.S.A.” world tour, guitarist Steve Van Zandt left the E Street Band to pursue a solo career. Springsteen, in need of a replacement, called Nils Lofgren. A veteran of the...
John Lee Hooker: The Complete 1989 Interview
This interview, the first of several with my childhood blues hero, took place on the sunny afternoon of July 19, 1989. The setting was John Lee Hooker’s comfortable home in Vallejo, California. At that time, the walls of his living room wer...
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