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They were the changes in musical direction and key personnel made on Jethro Tull’s critical preceding third album,”Benefit”, in April 1970, which provided the oxygen in “Aqualung” ‘s tank a year later. Ian Anderson is my guest for your “Benefit”.
Bad Company had elbowed their way to the forefront of the rock world by the late March 1975 release of their second album, “Straight Shooter” ,avoiding the sophomore jinx with timeless songs “Good Lovin’ Gone Bad”,”Feel Like Makin’ Love”, and “Shooting Star”. But as my guests Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs, and Simon Kirke share here, strange things can happen eventually when that much success is achieved that quickly in lives so young.
“In the Studio” : David, Stephen, Graham, and Neil of Crosby, Stills, Nash , and Young with Redbeard for “Deja Vu” .
It was over fifty years ago that US audiences were introduced through a Paul McCartney song,”Come and Get It”, to a little-known English band The Iveys, soon to be rechristened Badfinger and to become second only to The Beatles in sales on the Apple Records label.
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band “Against the Wind” was one of their seven Top 10 multi-platinum albums in a row. Bob Seger is my guest on “Against the Wind” ‘s 45th anniversary.
James Taylor is still recording wonderfully satisfying albums like “American Standard”, and being chosen to open brand new live music venues, fifty-five years after the album “Sweet Baby James” captured the country’s attention. Now that’s finding the keys to a real time machine. James Taylor joins me In the Studio.
“Chicago II” climbed to #4 sales in America, #6 in the UK, a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and sales of over a million, igniting a legacy of thirty-six releases in fifty years together. Chicago co-founder Robert Lamm tells the insider tale of Chicago “II”.
the Black Crowes’ fraternal core of singer Chris Robinson and guitarist Rich Robinson have arrived at a “Wiser Time” in order to mount a major 30th anniversary tour playing “Shake Your Moneymaker” in 2020
Rush 45th anniversary interview “Permanent Waves” with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson
If you have not listened to the Guess Who’s January 1970 classic “American Woman” album recently, I predict you will be amazed at how strong the songs were, such as “No Sugar Tonight”; how environmentally aware lyricist/ gifted singer Burton Cummings was on “New Mother Nature” and “Hand Me Down World”; and how rockin’ Randy Bachman could complement Cummings’ pop side on “American Woman” and before that, “No Time”. So why did Bachman leave at the Guess Who’s peak? Find out here from Burton Cummings & Randy Bachman In the Studio.