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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Mitch Ryder Keeps His Promise
posted: January 25, 2012
What we think of today as “classic rock” would probably still have existed in a world without Mitch Ryder, but it most likely would have sounded quite different. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels ruled…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Bob Seger's Still Making Night Moves
posted: November 23, 2011
The Bob Seger catalog is the rock & roll equivalent of your skeletal system”you probably take it for granted to the point that you seldom think about it, but where would you be without it?…
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End of the Revolution: Has Pop Lost Its Social Conscience?
posted: January 14, 2011
“You say you want a revolution,” The Beatles taunted in 1968. Seventeen years later, the Cult declared, “There’s a revolution.” When Tracy Chapman started “talkin’ ’bout a revolution” in 1988, she left the battlefield with…
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Q&A With Jed Hilly, Executive Director of the Americana Music Association
posted: December 21, 2010
Based in Nashville, Tennessee, the Americana Music Association is a nonprofit organization dedicated to celebrating and cultivating the community of Americana artists across the country. The AMA works around the clock to host events, participate…
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Grace Potter Talks Robert Plant, Kenny Chesney, and Nocturnal Awakenings
posted: October 14, 2010
The recent Americana Music Awards in Nashville may be over, but Grace Potter’s still savoring her memories of the event.Besides mingling with such country, bluegrass and Americana heavyweights as Rosanne Cash, The Avett Brothers, the…
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Will the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2011 Right Old Wrongs Or Make New Ones?
posted: October 13, 2010
Another year, another batch of deserving, long-overdue and not-so-worthy nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This cycle, the biggest mystery doesn’t involve the ones they omitted but the legend they…
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