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Rick Harvey was an acquaintance of mine and a great guitar player for Bobby Blue Bland, Little Milton, and many others, highly respected by his fellow musicians, black and white, and the possessor of a fine, gentle, and kind personality. Here's a picture of Rick Harvey with Stevie Ray Vaughan: Sadly, we lost Rick a few years back, but this video surfaced last month to bring back great memories
One of the greatest soul songs of all time, Solomon Burke's "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love": You may remember it from the Blues Brothers movie, but that's cool, they had Cropper and Duck behind 'em: Another in the same spirit is Bobby Blue Bland's "Turn On Your Love Light": Let's not forget the biggest root of soul music, black gospel, and one of its foot-in-both-camps exponents, O.V.
The music business is filled with tragic stories, but that doesn’t lessen the impact of individual tales of opportunities lost and potential unfilled. One of those is the story of Johnny Ace. Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) was a Memphis native and a regular on the local music scene from an early age. A contemporary [...]
I’m happy to present So Young, So Cold, So Fair: The Saint James Infirmary Blues, a collection of songs of loss and love regarding The St. James Infirmary. Honey was established over four (!) years ago around the idea that it was too hard actually listen to pre-war blues without buying out of print or [...]
Ira B. Tucker, lead singer of the Dixie Hummingbirds, performed a style of gospel music that erased boundaries, between music and movement, praise and performance, style and spirit.For 70 years Tucker and the Hummingbirds gave high-energy, emotion-drenched shows designed to please the Lord and wow audiences.The group influenced a long list of R & B artists and could have crossed over from gospel to...
Early press raves are in for Mick Hucknall's TRIBUTE TO BOBBY: "Hucknall's covers have a fabulously fresh perspective." --Seattle PI "In 'Tribute to Bobby,' Bland's music blooms fresh in Hucknall's knowing hands." --SF Chronicle "Tribute to Bobby" isn't some clich blues or soul salute, but instead a modern pop album that draws effortlessly from all those sources." --NY Daily News...
How can you record a salute to another singer while retaining your own voice? The question looms over the first solo album from Simply Red's Mick Hucknall.
Because the NAMM show has returned to Nashvegas, we can expect to see some incredible music in town this coming weekend. And some of it will be in unexpected places. A little birdie (OK, really it was a musician friend of mine) told me about a show on Saturday night that I cannot freakin’ believe. At 9:30 [...]
Last updated June 17, 2008 10:01 a.m. PTListen Up: 'Mick Hucknall's 'Tribute to Bobby'(Rhino)The Simply Red vocalist turns blue with a tribute to Bobby "Blue" Bland, the enduring Southern soul singer. Bland's voice is at its most dynamic on despondent ballads of rejection. Hucknall's is too sweet, too perfectly pop, to capture Bland's grit, so his covers have a fabulously fresh perspective.The instrumentation...
LOS ANGELES -- Simply Red has developed a bad case of the blues. But not to fret, the British pop contingent's front man, Mick Hucknall, says that's a good thing.
One of the most distinctive vocalists in Britain tips his hat to one of the greatest from the American South with the June 17 release of Mick Hucknall's TRIBUTE TO BOBBY. The solo debut from the leader of Simply Red features sizzling versions of songs popularized by the great Bobby "Blue" Bland. The first single to radio is the lead track "Farther Up The Road' which debuts at 21* on the R&R Smooth...
LOS ANGELES -- One of the most distinctive vocalists in Britain tips his hat to one of the greatest from the American South with the June 17 release of Mick Hucknall's Tribute To Bobby. The solo debut from the leader of Simply Red features sizzling versions of songs popularized by the great Bobby "Blue" Bland...
