Ray Charles may have been born in Georgia, but he was discovered in Seattle after playing at the local Rocking Chair club and doing his earliest recordings on the city’s Down Beat label. Seattle is ...
Guitarists in the 1960s rewrote the rules—technically, culturally, and sonically. Fueled by the British blues revival and American counterculture, icons like Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, and Jeff ...
Jimi Hendrix became a rock legend in the 1960s thanks to his undeniable guitar skills. Despite his lasting impact on music over half a century after his death, Hendrix’s own career in the spotlight ...
The decade of the 1960s was when everything changed for rock music. And the vibrations from that era are still felt in modern ...
On Sept. 18, 1970 — 55 years ago Thursday — the entertainment world lost a man who has been called “the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.” That was when singer, songwriter and ...
In a touching letter, Al Hendrix wrote to his mother in 1945 about the son he hardly knew. Little Jimmy had been born while Al was serving overseas in World War II and had been living with a family in ...
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