John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer,songwriter,and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper,he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements,including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style,distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists,and has been cited as one of the greatest male blues vocalists of all time.
The Funk Brothers were a group of Detroit-based session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown recordings from 1959 until the company moved to Los Angeles in 1972.
Psychedelic Shack is the twelfth studio album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label released in 1970. Completely written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and produced by Whitfield,Psychedelic Shack almost completely abandoned the "Motown Sound" formula,instead delving fully into psychedelia. Along with the hit title track,the album also features the group's original version of "War",which became a major hit for Edwin Starr later in 1970.
The Stylistics is the debut album by American R&B group the Stylistics,released in November 1971 on the Avco record label. It was produced by Thom Bell and recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. The album has been called "a sweet soul landmark."
Crack the Sky is the debut album by American rock band Crack the Sky,released on LP in 1975 by Lifesong Records.
The Kids &Me is the ninth studio album by Billy Preston,released in 1974,after his famous tour in Europe. This album included "You Are So Beautiful",later covered by Joe Cocker,and the hit single "Nothing from Nothing".
Clydie Mae King was an American singer,best known for her session work as a backing vocalist. King also recorded solo under her name. In the 1970s,she recorded as Brown Sugar,and her single "Loneliness " reached No. 44 on the Billboard R&B charts in 1973.
New Harvest...First Gathering is the eighteenth solo studio album by American entertainer Dolly Parton. It was released on February 14,1977,by RCA Victor. It is significant for being Parton's first self-produced album,as well as her first effort aimed specifically at the pop charts.
Blues Jam in Chicago is a studio recording by the British rock band Fleetwood Mac,originally released in two single-LP volumes by Blue Horizon in December 1969. It was the result of a recording session in early 1969 at Chess Records in Chicago with Fleetwood Mac,then a young British blues band,and a number of famous Chicago blues artists from whom they drew inspiration. The album has also been released,with slightly different track listings,under the titles Blues Jam at Chess Volumes One and Two and Fleetwood Mac in Chicago,the latter by Sire Records in 1976.
Roy Charles Hammond,better known as Roy C or Roy "C",was an American southern soul singer,songwriter and record executive,best known for his 1965 hit,"Shotgun Wedding". Another song,"Impeach the President",which he recorded and produced with a high school group,the Honey Drippers,has had one of the most sampled drum tracks in hip hop music.
Swamp Gold is an album by Freddy Fender,released in 1978 on ABC Records. It peaked at No. 44 on Billboards's Top Country Albums chart. Fender's version of "I'm Leaving It All Up to You" is a Tex-Mex standard.
Aretha Live at Fillmore West is a live album by American singer Aretha Franklin. Released on May 19,1971,by Atlantic Records. It was reissued on compact disc in 1993 through Rhino Records. An expanded,limited edition 4-CD box set entitled,Don't Fight the Feeling:The Complete Aretha Franklin &King Curtis Live at Fillmore West was released by Rhino in 2005. This was limited to 5000 numbered copies. In addition,there is a guest duet vocal by Ray Charles on "Spirit in the Dark".
Chirpin' is an album by the American musical group the Persuasions,released in 1977. It was rereleased in 1990,following the success of the PBS documentary Spike Lee &Company:Do It a Cappella.
All Killer,No Filler:The Anthology is a 1993 box set collecting 42 songs by rock and roll and rockabilly pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis from the mid-1950s to the 1980s,including 27 charting hits. The album has been critically well received. In 2003,Rolling Stone listed the album at #245 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time",maintaining its rating in a 2012 revised list,and dropping to #325 in the 2020 update. Country Music:The Rough Guide indicated that "[t]his is the kind of full-bodied,decades-spanning treatment that Lewis's long,diverse career more than well deserves."
Classic Rock was a 31-volume series issued by Time Life during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The series spotlighted popular music played on Top 40 radio stations of the mid-to-late-1960s.
Endless Boogie is a studio album by American blues musician John Lee Hooker,released in 1971 through ABC Records. Produced by Bill Szymczyk and Ed Michel,the double album was recorded at Wally Heider Recording with session musicians such as Jesse Ed Davis,Carl Radle,Steve Miller,Gino Skaggs and Mark Naftalin.
The Killer Rocks On is an album by Jerry Lee Lewis that was released on Mercury Records in 1972.
The London Muddy Waters Sessions is a studio album by Muddy Waters,released in 1972 on Chess Records. A follow-up to 1971's The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions, the concept was to combine American bluesmen with British and Irish blues/rock stars. The album was an attempt to capitalise on the increasing popularity of traditional blues music and blues artists in Britain.
Kenneth S. Greenberg is an American guitarist,songwriter,producer,and session musician. He is known for bringing a rock-and-roll sensibility to Nashville recording sessions.
"Meat Man" is a Rock 'n' roll song written by Mack Vickery and originally recorded by him in 1970 under the name Atlanta James. The most well known recording was by Jerry Lee Lewis,and was the first and only single off Lewis's 1973 album Southern Roots:Back Home to Memphis.
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