This week on Rock’s Backpages
GREETINGS to all festive spirits and lone groovers out there. On Rock's Backpages this week we spotlight not one but two great American music writers...
Nelson George, our next podcast guest, talks to NME's Paolo Hewitt about his Death Of Rhythm & Blues in 1989, plus we feature Mark Dery's review of that seminal book and Ian Penman's review of 1998's Hip Hop America. Meanwhile Village Voice veteran Dan Nooger sees Bruce Springsteen at Max's Kansas City in January 1973... and interviews Arthur Lee and the Average White Band for Circus in 1975. We also say farewell to Mahavishnu Orchestra bassist Rick Laird with pieces from 1966 and 1974. For RBP subscribers there are audio interviews with powerhouse R&B production duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, firm faves of Mr. George's (you'll hear him discussing them in Episode 105 of the RBP podcast). There are also dozens of additions to our library of 45,000+ articles & 700+ audio interviews, including L.A. Weekly's Byron Coley on The Minutemen (1983), Vanity Fair's Sheila Weller looking back on Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love and great pieces about... • Lee Dorsey (1966) • Brinsley Schwarz (1971) • Harry Chapin (1975) • Haircut 100 (1981) • Bobby Womack (1985) • Ween (1993) ... and (from 2014) Kim Gordon. Listen to the latest episode of our acclaimed podcast, in which Vivien Goldman talks wonderfully about Joe Strummer, postpunk feminism and the late '70s Ladbroke Grove scene. "When it has to do with my life, my life, I wanna be the one in control..."
