“He was so well thought of as an all-around entertainer” said Alice Cooper of his friend Glen Campbell. Those undisputable talents are on full display again thanks to the new album, Glen Campbell Live From…
The impact of the Beatles is undeniable. Modern day songstress Julie Mintz says, “Even if you didn’t grow up listening to the Beatles, your songwriting heroes were most likely influenced by them”. In 2000, the…
For an artist who knows what they are doing, it is not terribly difficult to cover the Beatles…but that is not to say it is easy to do them justice. Many have tried and failed….
It is easy to understand why the Beatles are such an attractive option for other artists to cover. Generally speaking, their songs are complex but not overly complicated. Their lyrics, almost seamlessly brilliant, are witty,…
When four lads from Liverpool got together in the early 1960s to make music, they never dreamed they would become the most influential band of all-time. 60 years later, the Beatles are undisputedly that. The…
On the evening of December 8, 1980, an announcement was made during a Monday Night Football game. An emotional Howard Cosell related the unimaginable, stating that John Lennon had been “shot twice in the back,…
By the early 1970s, The Beatles were broken up. George Harrison had been married to fashion model Pattie Boyd for a handful of years and Eric Clapton had just recorded the epic and iconic love…
“Pancho and Lefty” is the best known song from perhaps the greatest songwriter you’ve never heard of. It was written in 1972 by the hallowed pen of Townes Van Zandt. Hardly known outside the realm…
Glen Campbell was one of the most influential music artists of the last 60 years. Born in Arkansas in 1936, he got his start as a session musician in Los Angeles playing guitar for the…