“America’s finest maybe non-rock band”…..Robert Palmer, New York Times, 1977. That quote may be an apt description for Steely Dan, a musical act that clearly cannot be defined by conventional words. Actually, Steely Dan is not a band at all–two pretty unassuming, nerdy guys named Walter Becker and Donald Fagan are really who make up ...
Exactly what it is that sets Ray LaMontagne apart from other musicians is a difficult point to put a finger on. First, there’s that voice. LaMontagne comes to each song with a sound unlike any artist I’ve heard. The term “blue-eyed soul” comes to mind; yet this is beyond that, a more gravelly, from the ...
Are you wondering, how could I come up with Top Ten Songs by Taylor Hicks? Taylor Hicks is a recently discovered American Idol. Although he is a new artist to the music business without his first official full CD release, he has been singing and trying to get discovered for 10 years. In that 10 ...
Do you have a headache? Does it have Excedrin all over it? Those commercials from the 1980’s were quite annoying, and enough to give anyone a headache that would require the services of this medicine. There are times when a medicine with this strength is needed, and that would include some of the following examples: ...