Goldmine back issues from June 2007:
Please Mr. Postman
Jun 08, 2007; ... Record companies on wrong track I'm writing to vent. In a time when most musical artists are the flavor of the month and never heard from again and when "American Idol" atrocities outshine proven talent, where is the true music fan to turn? We have a downturn in CD sales and an upturn in ...
Star-studded Reaction label remains a gem for collectors
Jun 08, 2007; ... Mid-'60s Britain was, it now seems, littered with tiny entrepreneur-led record labels that emerged for a handful of hits and/or headlines before being sucked back into the abyss of major-label politics. Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate, Shel Talmy's Planet, Simon Napier Bell's SNB, Giorgio ...
Simply Red, simply heart and soul
Jun 08, 2007; ... Time hasn't ravaged Mick Hucknall's voice the way it sometimes does with singers. Taking great care over the years, he protected it and now, he's noticed a change. "I think with age I've gotten a little more bass in the voice, but consequently, because of my technique over the years of ...
Grapeleaves
Jun 08, 2007; ... The Mamas and the Papas, Al Kooper and Otis Redding - all performers at 1967's Monterey International Pop Festival - were inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk, according to the Associated Press ... Daryl Hall of the music duo Hall and Oates bought what is said to be Maine's oldest home for nearly ...
Looking Back...
Jun 08, 2007; ... 10 YEARS AGO: Pat Boone attempted a comeback with his heavy-metal album In A Metal Mood (No More Mr. Nice Guy). His final #1 hit, "Moody River," came this same week in 1961. 20 YEARS AGO: Madonna scored her 11th consecutive Top 5 hit with "La Isla Bonita" - a feat bettered only by Elvis ...
Roots
Jun 08, 2007; ... Mix tapes of the stars? Wynonna Judd and Sarah McLachlan lend their names to Target's Spotlight 180 series with saucy various artist compilations that boast classic songs by their favorite performers. Further, Target's Nashville Now - Red Mix compilation smartly blends tracks by Vince Gill, ...
Oldies
Jun 08, 2007; ... To celebrate the upcoming golden anniversary of their hit "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)," Bruce Belland, the lead singer of the Four Preps, has assembled a new incarnation of the vocal quartet that will debut at a July 15 beach party and concert at Descanso Beach, located on Catalina Island ...
OBITUARIES: Alerth Bedasse
Jun 08, 2007; ... Jamaican singer Alerth Bedasse (79) died of a stroke on March 5 in Jamaica. Alerth Rockford Bedasse began singing as a boy in Clarendon, Jamaica. His cousin gave him a guitar, and Bedasse soon learned how to play it well enough to accompany himself. In 1949, he moved to Kingston ...
OBITUARIES: Colin Winski
Jun 08, 2007; ... Rockabilly singer Colin Winski (50) died at his home in Phoenix, Ariz., March 18. No cause of death has been determined, pending an autopsy. Winski was born Nov. 13, 1956, in Hollywood, Calif. As a boy, he saw the Elvis Presley movie Lovin' You, and he became infatuated with The ...
OBITUARIES: Mark St. John
Jun 08, 2007; ... Guitarist Mark St. John (51) died April 5 in Los Angeles of a brain hemorrhage . He was born Mark Leslie Norton in Hollywood, Calif. on Feb. 7, 1956. He learned to play guitar and was classically trained on violin. In 1983, he replaced Vinnie Vincent in Kiss, who had replaced Ace ...
OBITUARIES: Danny Barcelona
Jun 08, 2007; ... Jazz drummer Danny Barcelona (77) died of cancer April 1 at a convalescent home in the San Gabriel Valley, Calif. Daniel Barcelona was born in Hawaii on Aug. 23, 1929, the son of Filipino immigrants. He became a fan of Dixieland jazz as a teenager and learned to play drums when he was ...
Digging up the past
Jun 08, 2007; ... Sunbeam shines its spotlight on obscure Anglo gems Specialty labels maintain a hallowed place in the indie ethos, especially those that have a focus on archival offerings. Rhino, Rykodisc and, more recently, Shout Factory! all have managed to raise their profiles by spotlighting reissues ...
Disc News
Jun 08, 2007; ... JUNE 12 ... Tia Carrera, Heaven/Hell (Arclight Records) ... Abra Moore, On The Way (Sarathan Records) ... Various Artists, Summer of Love: Hits of 1967 (Time Life, 2 CDs). Features 40 tracks by artists including The Mamas and The Papas, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Monkees, The ...
10 Questions For... Marshall Chess
Jun 08, 2007; ... For Marshall Chess, entertainment seems as much his calling as it is his birthright. Born in Chicago in 1942, Marshall was raised during the heyday of the independent record business. His father, Leonard, had a piece of a record company named Aristocrat Records in 1947. In 1950, Leonard ...
TV archives are untapped treasure chest of musical gems
Jun 08, 2007; ... Recently, I read a letter to the editor from a reader requesting a story on 1950s vocal groups on television. It's a subject in which I personally have a lot of interest. It's frustrating for many of us to know that in the kinescoped archives of programs, including "American Bandstand," the ...
Kings of Leon's Southern harmony
Jun 08, 2007; ... Preacher's kids gone wild change their evil ways, embrace Bob Dylan Caleb Followill is weary of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle ... sort of. When asked if his band, Kings of Leon, actually deserves its hard-partying reputation, the singer-guitarist shoots straight from the ...
Because of the Times
Jun 08, 2007; ... Review Kings of Leon Because of the Times RCA (88697 03776-2) Grade: ***** The Kings of Leon may just be the best damn rock band on the planet right now. The scary thing is, they keep getting better. The Kings' 2003 debut, Youth and Young Manhood, ...
New books fill shelves with Beatles insight
Jun 08, 2007; ... The Remains were on the bill of The Beatles' final U.S. tour in the summer of '66, playing their own set as well as backing The Ronettes and Bobby Hebb - meaning that each show they played longer than The Beatles did. "I don't know why I didn't get paid more than them," jokes Barry ...
Short-lived Twinight label left its mark on soul
Jun 08, 2007; ... Most late '60s/early 70s Chicago soul labels were lucky to score any sort of hit during their brief lifespans. Twinight Records - or Twilight, as it was first christened - came up big its first time out of the box with Syl Johnson's incendiary workout "Come On Sock It To Me" in the ...
10 Songs that Rocked the World!
Jun 08, 2007; ... There were hundreds of great songs in the 1950s, but these 10 helped define a music generation To inject a little fun into this issue of Goldmine, a tribute issue to great '50s stars and songs, we decided to enlist the help of some of our best oldies writers to come up with a list of the ...
The Best of the Rest
Jun 08, 2007; ... * "The Fat Man" - Fats Domino - 1949/1950: Domino's initial offering set the stage for dozens of magical Crescent City recordings, often coming out of the same Cosimo Matassa-run studio. - Todd Baptista * "Rocket 88" - Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats - 1951: "Rocket 88," featuring Ike ...
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis
Jun 08, 2007; ... Hellraiser "You remember me, don't 'cha?" That highly uncharacteristic query from a 71-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis seals off "Rock And Roll," the Led Zeppelin anthem opening the Killer's comeback album Last Man Standing (Zep's Jimmy Page's lead guitar sparkles on the ...
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Jun 08, 2007; ... Byrds Sweetheart of the Rodeo Sundazed (LP 5215) (vinyl LP) Grade: ***** At its release in the summer of 1968, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo marked a watershed moment in music: The Byrds became the first popular rock 'n' roll act to release a country-rock album. Defying ...
The New Punk Blues of Ed Pettersen
Jun 08, 2007; ... Ed Pettersen The New Punk Blues of Ed Pettersen Split Rock Records (SRR16051) Grade: **** If it's true that one's judged by the company they keep, then Ed Pettersen's in damn good standing. For starters, there's his one-time roommate, Scott Kempner, a former ...
The Frozen Borderline 1968-1970
Jun 08, 2007; ... Nico The Frozen Borderline 1968-1970 Rhino (8122-74885-2) Grade: ***** No matter how many Nico albums may be on the shelves these days (and it's a lot, considering she recorded just six throughout her lifetime), only three - 1968's Marble Index, 1970's Desert ...
Beyond
Jun 08, 2007; ... Indie Label Spotlight Dinosaur Jr. Beyond Fat Possum Records (FP1082) Grade: ***** Healing a rift that famously tore the band apart back in 1989, the three members of Dinosaur Jr.'s original line-up, singer-guitarist J Mascis, bassist Lou Barlow, and ...
Strangelet
Jun 08, 2007; ... Grant Lee Phillips Strangelet Zoe (01143 1108-2) Grade: ***** There comes a moment in every artist's career - every artist who aspires to something approaching longevity, that is - when it suddenly becomes apparent to even die-hard blinkered fans that - how do we ...
The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail/Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album/The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief
Jun 08, 2007; ... Monty Python The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail Arista/Legacy (88697 08408 2) Grade: ***** Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album Arista/Legacy (88697 08409 2) Grade:***** The ...
Massey Hall 1971
Jun 08, 2007; ... Neil Young Massey Hall 1971 Reprise (43328-2) Grade: **** They may be the most anticipated archival offerings ever - that is, Neil Young's long-awaited multi-disc retrospective now scheduled to arrive sometime later this year. As a teaser of sorts, two vintage ...
Some Loud Thunder
Jun 08, 2007; ... Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Some Loud Thunder Self-released Grade: *** Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's back-story was enough to warrant attention. In 2005, the NYC/Philadelphia band released its self-titled first album without any help whatsoever from the record ...
Harmonic convergence
Jun 08, 2007; ... The Dells' long road to fame "The Ice Man" Jerry Butler said, 'When the doors of the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame were opened, The Dells should have been standing right there.' It took a while, but we finally got in." - Chuck Barksdale With 55 years in the music business - ...
The Weirdness
Jun 08, 2007; ... The Stooges The Weirdness Virgin (64648) Grade: *** There are plenty of reasons to hate reunion albums by groups that originally called it quits decades ago. For one thing, nothing they do will ever be as good, or as relevant, as what they've done in the past ....
Into The Blues
Jun 08, 2007; ... Joan Armatrading Into The Blues 429 Records (FTN 17625) Grade: *** Joan Armatrading reverting to the blues is kind of like a cowboy returning to the range; it's the ideal combination. Over the past 30 years or so, Armatrading's simmering, soulful ruminations have ...
Please Mr. Postman
Jun 22, 2007; ... Where's Buddy Holly in the list? I know you were trying not to have all the songs be from the late '50s, but not to have a song from the greatest influence of that decade or from rock 'n' roll in general is incomprehensible! {June 8, Issue #701} [You missed] "That'll Be The Day" ...
Online Poll Results
Jun 22, 2007; ... The results are in: Your favorite '50s artists! So, who made the '50s fabulous for you? Seems the Goldminemag.com crowd loves the classics: Buddy Holly & The Crickets, Elvis Presley and Connie Francis each won their respective categories. But, plenty of other artists ...
Northern soul maintains upper hand on eBay bids
Jun 22, 2007; ... Northern soul dominates again this month, with the top three recent eBay vinyl bids. 1. $4,827 Dennis Edwards - "Johnnie on the Spot" b/w "I Didn't Have To" 45: The first is a very good condition promo copy of the first-ever release by Dennis Edwards of the Temptations on the ...
From punk to pop, take these LPs for a spin
Jun 22, 2007; ... As spring slowly evolves into summer, we have a whole lot of vinyl to keep your turntable going for hours, if not days. It Was Six Months Ago Today ... Last November, the controversial Beatles' Love project was issued on shiny metal discs. Finally, in May 2007, Love was issued on ...
Jazz
Jun 22, 2007; ... I'm not much for jazz drum solos - they're the jazz analogy to endless, narcissistic rock guitar solos - but I like the ones by Alvin Queen on his new CD, I Ain't Looking at You (Enja/Justin Time JENJ 3329-2). Queen's a Bronx native who's lived in Switzerland for going on 30 years. Here, ...
Oldies
Jun 22, 2007; ... A stroke sent Bo Diddley to an Omaha hospital May 13 following two shows at Harrah's Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Reports on his condition were encouraging; though he was having some problems communicating, the rock pioneer reportedly escaped significant physical damage. Diddley had ...
OBITUARIES: Dakota Staton
Jun 22, 2007; ... Jazz singer Dakota Staton (76) died April 10 in New York City. No cause of death was announced, but her health had been declining for many years. Born in Pittsburgh on June 3, 1930, Staton enjoyed singing and dancing as a child. She studied at the Filion School of Music, and she began ...
OBITUARIES: Don Ho
Jun 22, 2007; ... Hawaiian pop singer Don Ho (76) died of heart failure April 14 in Honolulu. His last performance was April 12. He was born Donald Tai Loy Ho on Aug. 13, 1930, in Honolulu of Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and German descent. He grew up in Kaneohe, Hawaii, where his parents owned ...
OBITUARIES: Little Sonny Warner
Jun 22, 2007; ... R&B singer Little Sonny Warner (77) died April 12 at his home in Falls Church, Va. No cause of death was announced. Haywood S. Warner grew up in Falls Church. In the early '50s, he sang in a vocal group called The Rockets. Around 1956, he worked as a valet for Lloyd Price. He filled ...
OBITUARIES: Glenn Sutton
Jun 22, 2007; ... Country songwriter/producer Glenn Sutton (69) died of a heart attack April 17 at his home in Nashville, Tenn. Sutton was born and raised in Hodge, La. Soon after he graduated from high school in 1955, he became interested in singing and writing songs. He cut some records for Ace, M-G-M ...
OBITUARIES: Andrew Hill
Jun 22, 2007; ... Jazz pianist and composer Andrew Hill (75) died of lung cancer April 20 at his home in Jersey City, N.J. He gave his last performance on March 29. Hill was born in Chicago on June 30, 1931. He began playing the accordion at 7, and three years later, he switched to piano. As a young ...
Erasure's new record sees the light
Jun 22, 2007; ... Andy Bell admits he sometimes second-guesses Erasure partner, and synthesizer wizard, Vince Clarke, in the studio. Usually, though, Clarke's instincts are above reproach. "When we make music, Vince is very dogmatic," says Bell, the electro-pop duo's vocalist. "He won't let me touch ...
Grapeleaves
Jun 22, 2007; ... Evanescence has added Dark New Day drummer Will Hunt and guitarist Troy McLawhorn to the gothrock band ... Lawyers for Michael Jackson dropped an effort to block a May 30-31 auction of the more than 1,000 of the pop star's personal belongings and Jackson family items ... A sold-out May 18 Killers ...
Looking Back...
Jun 22, 2007; ... 10 YEARS AGO: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon spent its 1,056th week atop the Billboard charts' Top Pop Catalog survey. 20 YEARS AGO: "In Too Deep," a track on the Invisible Touch album, gave Genesis its fifth top 10 single from the same LP. 30 YEARS AGO: Elvis Presley played ...
Great drumming is nothing new
Jun 22, 2007; ... 1950s drummers provided plenty of great (and underappreciated) musical moments As part of Goldmine's 1950s issue (June 8, 2007), the editors asked several columnists to submit a list of the most influential records from the decade. Each of us provided a Top 2 as well as five "Honorable ...
Riddle me this rare picture sleeve!
Jun 22, 2007; ... Frank Gorshin "The Riddler" b/w "Never Let Her Go" A&M Records 804, 1966 The pop-art antics of the 1960s television show "Batman" are well documented. Batman and Robin's naïve sense of honor and fatuous incredulity in the face of outrageous, flamboyant villainy helped to create ...
Punk and prog rule releases, reissues across the pond
Jun 22, 2007; ... Yes has undergone so many lineup changes and convolutions over the years that you need a computer program to keep up. But one of the most puzzling was that period at the end of the 1980s, when the classic (Fragile, Close to The Edge) lineup of Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Bill Bruford and ...
OBITUARIES: Singer Bobby "Boris" Pickett
Jun 22, 2007; ... Singer Bobby "Boris" Pickett (69) died April 25 of leukemia at a hospital in West Los Angeles, Calif. He was born Robert George Pickett on Feb. 11, 1938, in Somerville, Mass. His father managed a movie theater, and Pickett spent much time watching Dracula and Frankenstein movies, from ...
10 Questions For... Doug Gray
Jun 22, 2007; ... The Marshall Tucker Band is alive and well in the 21st century, thanks to the never-say-die attitude of lead singer Doug Gray, the management of Ron Rainey, the support of Shout! Factory Records and most of all, the fans who still buy albums and come to shows. The group's CD of all-new ...
Year of Al Stewart
Jun 22, 2007; ... Singer-songwriter's extensive catalog now back in print Singer-songwriter Al Stewart has been making music for 40 years now, dating back to his very first record Bedsitter Images in 1967. But despite having million-selling records with Year Of The Cat (1976) and Time Passages (1978), ...
Out of the 'Wilderness'
Jun 22, 2007; ... John Doe proves there is life outside of X on new solo album Playing it close to the vest is probably the wisest course of action for someone in the public eye like John Doe. Which is why the founder of the seminal Los Angeles punk group X won't reveal what caused him to name his ...
BEATLES' MASTERPIECE HITS A MILESTONE
Jun 22, 2007; ... Twenty years ago today, it was impossible to turn around without bumping into another article that opened with the words "it was 20 years ago today." 1987 marked, indeed, the 20th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP and, two decades on from that ...
A world outside Sgt. Pepper
Jun 22, 2007; ... Other great British albums of June 1967 When acknowledging the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, many tend to place it nostalgically alongside love-ins, Monterey Pop, San Francisco, "Somebody To Love" and "Light My Fire" as symbols of The Summer Of Love. Perhaps ...
Busting 'Sgt. Pepper' myths
Jun 22, 2007; ... Author sets out to discover what's true and what's not "Most of the rock history that's been written by critics and historians has been written primarily by people who have a very rose-tinted view of the '60s," says author Clinton Heylin. "Even though I was born in 1960, I have no ...
Dinosaur Jr. and 'Beyond'
Jun 22, 2007; ... J. Mascis talks reunion and the lost art of the guitar solo Behind the wide glasses and the thick curtain of long, salt-and-pepper hair, seemingly getting more gray by the minute, hides an enigma. His name is J. Mascis, and he is Generation X's - not the band, but the actual ...
Live in the Middle East
Jun 22, 2007; ... DVD Review Dinosaur Jr. Live in the Middle East Image Entertainment (ID32462JDVD) Grade: **** An odd-looking, Muppet-like monster appears on stage playing the role of a cheerleader. When Dinosaur Jr. takes the stage at New York's venerable Irving Plaza ...
Atom Heart Mother
Jun 22, 2007; ... Classic Album Review Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother Capitol/Harvest (SKAO-382) Atom Heart Mother was something of a transition for the Floyd, one that found the band still struggling to maintain their lysergic legacy while searching for new directions. Following in ...
X meets Manzarek
Jun 22, 2007; ... Off The Record One night, John Doe and X were opening for a band that history would forget. Soon after, X would be making its classic first record, 1980's Los Angeles, with Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Strange how things work out, isn't it? "I remember him being incredibly ...
Real Life/Secondhand Daylight/The Correct Use of Soap/Magic, Murder and the Weather
Jun 22, 2007; ... Magazine Real Life Virgin (CDVR 2100) Grade: **** Secondhand Daylight Virgin (CDVR 2121) Grade: *** The Correct Use of Soap Virgin (CDVR 2156) Grade: ***** Magic, Murder and the Weather Virgin (CDVR ...
Kingdom Come
Jun 22, 2007; ... Sir Lord Baltimore Kingdom Come Anthology Records (www.anthologyrecordings.com) Grade: *** Long before Queens of the Stone Age fired up their bongs and right around the same time Ozzy and the rest of Black Sabbath were gobbling acid like Halloween candy, ...
Dylanesque
Jun 22, 2007; ... Bryan Ferry Dylanesque Capitol (8389 12) Grade: *** Bryan Ferry affecting Bob's banter isn't as curious as it might seem; after all, his first two forays away from Roxy Music found him mining covers almost exclusively - including a double dose of Dylan. However, ...
The Very Best of the Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration
Jun 22, 2007; ... Various Artists The Very Best of the Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration Stax (STX2-30203) Grade: ***** You can't go wrong with this compilation, which is far more manageable than giant predecessors released through Atlantic in the past two decades. Annotated by the ...