Most Led Zeppelin fans don’t know that lead singer Robert Plant is also a bass player. He even played a bit on one of the band’s earlier albums! Even though the rock legend was stuck on vocals when performing with Zeppelin, he has dabbled in other instruments over the years. In 2005, he admitted he wanted to play bass for a band many have compared to the one that made him famous.
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin said he’d ‘love to play bass’ with The Black Keys Robert Plant | Steve Jennings / Contributor
Known for playing blues rock, The Black Keys formed in 2001 in Akron, Ohio. Made up of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, the duo blew up after licensing their music for commercial use. The band caught the attention of many people in the industry, including the Led Zeppelin frontman.
In a 2005 interview with Rolling Stone, Plant listed...
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin said he’d ‘love to play bass’ with The Black Keys Robert Plant | Steve Jennings / Contributor
Known for playing blues rock, The Black Keys formed in 2001 in Akron, Ohio. Made up of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, the duo blew up after licensing their music for commercial use. The band caught the attention of many people in the industry, including the Led Zeppelin frontman.
In a 2005 interview with Rolling Stone, Plant listed...
- 3/24/2023
- by Rose Burke
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Far removed from music-industry cities like Los Angeles and Nashville, the seeds of American music were sown in Mississippi soil, where the pioneers of blues, country, and rock ‘n’ roll followed dusty roads through forests and flatlands to perform for locals.
Today, visitors from across the U.S. and abroad follow the Mississippi Blues Trail and Country Music Trail into the same communities to learn about the land that birthed Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, and Jimmie Rodgers and experience the roots of contemporary American music culture.
Before you...
Today, visitors from across the U.S. and abroad follow the Mississippi Blues Trail and Country Music Trail into the same communities to learn about the land that birthed Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, and Jimmie Rodgers and experience the roots of contemporary American music culture.
Before you...
- 8/1/2022
- by Jim Beaugez
- Rollingstone.com
The news of Mark Lanegan’s death broke early this afternoon, and it’s already sending shockwaves across the rock landscape. The former Screaming Trees frontman was a towering figure in the history of grunge. Starting in 1986 with their LP Clairvoyance, Lanegan and his bandmates set the stage for Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and so much music that followed in their wake. The Nineties would have unfolded in imaginably different ways without his influence.
For a tiny bit of proof, check out this rendition of “Where Did You Sleep Last...
For a tiny bit of proof, check out this rendition of “Where Did You Sleep Last...
- 2/22/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
After sitting in a cardboard box for nearly 60 years, a collection of previously unreleased Son House recordings will finally see the light of day with the arrival of Forever on My Mind on March 18, 2022 via Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound.
The recordings come from a Nov. 23, 1964 performance Son House gave at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana; five months later, the blues legend cut his seminal 1965 Columbia Records album, The Legendary Son House: Father of Folk Blues, which introduced him to a new, wider audience.
Forever on My Mind features...
The recordings come from a Nov. 23, 1964 performance Son House gave at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana; five months later, the blues legend cut his seminal 1965 Columbia Records album, The Legendary Son House: Father of Folk Blues, which introduced him to a new, wider audience.
Forever on My Mind features...
- 12/15/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In 1971, Peter Guralnick published Feel Like Going Home, which told the story of the blues through a series of revelatory profiles of Muddy Waters, Skip James, Howlin’ Wolf, and more. He ended the book with a goodbye: “I consider this chapter a swan song,” wrote Guralnick, who was 27 at the time. “Not only to the book but to my whole brief critical career. Next time you see me I hope I will be my younger, less self-conscious and critical self. It would be nice to just sit back and listen...
- 12/19/2020
- by Peter Guralnick
- Rollingstone.com
For 2020, we’ve teamed up with Kirkus Reviews, the pre-eminent book-review publication, to create a list of the year’s best music books. The 21 titles we came up with include biographies of musicians from Wagner to Kendrick Lamar, memoirs by greats like Rob Halford and Mariah Carey, and deep-dive explorations into topics like the history of sampling, gender and pop music, and the indie-rock scene of Athens, Georgia.
Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands From NKotB to BTS, Maria Sherman
Maria Sherman’s book debut accomplishes something...
Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands From NKotB to BTS, Maria Sherman
Maria Sherman’s book debut accomplishes something...
- 12/7/2020
- by Jon Dolan, David Browne, Brittany Spanos, Rob Sheffield, Simon Vozick-Levinson, Kory Grow, Andy Greene and Eric Liebetrau
- Rollingstone.com
Somewhere inside every album Beck has made since Mellow Gold — his 1994 surprise attack of slippery irony and hip-hop bravado — is the solo folk-blues singer caught on that year’s One Foot in the Grave, writing about despair with a surrealist edge while turned toward hope. That is the Beck who jumps out here in “Saw Lightning,” in looping spasms of acoustic, skidding Delta slide guitar.
Most of the song’s apocalypse comes in contemporary kicks. Beck sings of great fire and flooding, praying for rescue in a strident android’s...
Most of the song’s apocalypse comes in contemporary kicks. Beck sings of great fire and flooding, praying for rescue in a strident android’s...
- 11/26/2019
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
Mumford & Sons, the Lone Bellow, and Lady Antebellum are among the bands represented on this week’s list of the best country and Americana songs.
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, “Devil Got My Woman”
With help from producer Dan Auerbach, the owner of Mississippi’s oldest juke joint gives a nod to Skip James by reimagining the title track from the bluesman’s 1968 release. The result is a loose, thumping slice of Bentonia blues, performed with greasy grit and minor-key menace by one of the genre’s unsung heroes.
Ariel Posen, “Familiar Ground”
A modern-day guitar hero,...
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, “Devil Got My Woman”
With help from producer Dan Auerbach, the owner of Mississippi’s oldest juke joint gives a nod to Skip James by reimagining the title track from the bluesman’s 1968 release. The result is a loose, thumping slice of Bentonia blues, performed with greasy grit and minor-key menace by one of the genre’s unsung heroes.
Ariel Posen, “Familiar Ground”
A modern-day guitar hero,...
- 10/28/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Jason Isbell has spent a good deal of 2019 focusing less on his Grammy-winning songwriting and more on the instrument that enabled his rise from Muscle Shoals to Music City — his guitar.
Isbell, whose six-string skills helped define a trio of Drive-By Truckers albums before he found solo success, has recently played sideman to country supergroup the Highwomen and backed Sheryl Crow on her cover of Bob Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken.”
While logging road miles with his backing band the 400 Unit this summer, he worked bluesy guitar bends into the new song “Overseas,...
Isbell, whose six-string skills helped define a trio of Drive-By Truckers albums before he found solo success, has recently played sideman to country supergroup the Highwomen and backed Sheryl Crow on her cover of Bob Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken.”
While logging road miles with his backing band the 400 Unit this summer, he worked bluesy guitar bends into the new song “Overseas,...
- 10/16/2019
- by Jim Beaugez
- Rollingstone.com
NewportFILM will screen documentaries by Morgan Neville, Matt Tyrnauer, Nathanel Kahn, and Andrew Solomon as part of its annual summer series.
The festival has become something of an institution in the posh seaside community — Newport, Rhode Island is an old world resort, with Gilded Age mansions that are straight out of an Edith Wharton novel. Part of the attraction is that the sunset screenings are hosted in several different historic venues, including Rosecliff, a mansion featured in the 1974 version of “The Great Gatsby” with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, the Eisenhower House, which was the “Summer White House” for President Dwight D. Eisenhower or his Mar a Lago, and the Newport International Polo Grounds.
The screenings kicked off Thursday with Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” a look at the enduring legacy of Fred Rogers, and runs through September 6th. Past films that have played at newportFILM include Brett Morgan’s “Jane,...
The festival has become something of an institution in the posh seaside community — Newport, Rhode Island is an old world resort, with Gilded Age mansions that are straight out of an Edith Wharton novel. Part of the attraction is that the sunset screenings are hosted in several different historic venues, including Rosecliff, a mansion featured in the 1974 version of “The Great Gatsby” with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, the Eisenhower House, which was the “Summer White House” for President Dwight D. Eisenhower or his Mar a Lago, and the Newport International Polo Grounds.
The screenings kicked off Thursday with Neville’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” a look at the enduring legacy of Fred Rogers, and runs through September 6th. Past films that have played at newportFILM include Brett Morgan’s “Jane,...
- 6/22/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
- 6/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
And now we’ve arrived at the end of the calendar year. As the final push for year-end viewing continues at a furious pace, some of the last unknown films of 2016 will finally make their way to audiences. To help focus your viewing choices, here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
If you’re interested in what still might be in a theater near you, check out our November Release Guide. For those curious what 2017 might bring, you can also visit our calendar page, which has releases through the beginning of the new year.
Happy watching!
Week of December 2 Wide
Incarnate
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten, Catalina Sandino Moreno, David Mazouz, John Pirruccello, Keir O’Donnell, Matthew Nable
Synopsis: A scientist with the ability to enter the...
If you’re interested in what still might be in a theater near you, check out our November Release Guide. For those curious what 2017 might bring, you can also visit our calendar page, which has releases through the beginning of the new year.
Happy watching!
Week of December 2 Wide
Incarnate
Director: Brad Peyton
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Carice van Houten, Catalina Sandino Moreno, David Mazouz, John Pirruccello, Keir O’Donnell, Matthew Nable
Synopsis: A scientist with the ability to enter the...
- 12/1/2016
- by Alec McPike and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant is heading to Mississippi to headline a festival in the historic Delta blues town he recorded a song about in 1999.
Plant recorded "Walking Into Clarksdale" with former Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page and has visited the town numerous times. The rock star is returning to Clarksdale this weekend to headline the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival's 25th anniversary celebration with his new roots-music band, the Sensational Space Shifters.
On Saturday, Plant will take the stage with Grammy-winning vocalist Patty Griffin, West African virtuoso musician Juldeh Camara, guitarists Justin Adams and Bill Fuller, keyboardist John Baggott and drummer Dave Smith.
The performance is being hailed "one of the single biggest things to happen to Clarksdale," said resident and Cat Head music store owner Roger Stolle.
"Robert Plant can do anything in the world he wants to do but chooses to come here and pay homage...
Plant recorded "Walking Into Clarksdale" with former Zeppelin bandmate Jimmy Page and has visited the town numerous times. The rock star is returning to Clarksdale this weekend to headline the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival's 25th anniversary celebration with his new roots-music band, the Sensational Space Shifters.
On Saturday, Plant will take the stage with Grammy-winning vocalist Patty Griffin, West African virtuoso musician Juldeh Camara, guitarists Justin Adams and Bill Fuller, keyboardist John Baggott and drummer Dave Smith.
The performance is being hailed "one of the single biggest things to happen to Clarksdale," said resident and Cat Head music store owner Roger Stolle.
"Robert Plant can do anything in the world he wants to do but chooses to come here and pay homage...
- 8/9/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
R.L. Burnside first recorded at age 40, remained obscure until 65, and was a legend at 75. Born on November 23, 1926 in Oxford, Mississippi, he spent most of his life in his rural native area, where he worked as a sharecropper as late as 1979, though he lived in Chicago and Memphis for short periods. His appearance in the Robert Mugge/Robert Palmer 1992 documentary movie and soundtrack album Deep Blues and his acclaimed 1994 Fat Possum album Too Bad Jim seemed to come out of nowhere to catch the attention of not only blues fans but also the underground rock crowd. But R.L. (pronounced "Rule" by his friends) had been on an Arhoolie compilation LP in 1967, and as his fame rose, several pre-Deep Blues albums reappeared with wider distribution.
Where did Burnside's striking style come from? The decline of the Mississippi sharecropping system and the region's subsequent economic slump led to many railroad lines being discontinued.
Where did Burnside's striking style come from? The decline of the Mississippi sharecropping system and the region's subsequent economic slump led to many railroad lines being discontinued.
- 11/22/2011
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
David Bowie Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Rock Song: Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) Album: Scary Monsters Ryan Adams Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Rock Song: Halloweenhead Album: Easy Tiger Elliott Smith Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Alternative Song: Fear City Album: New Moon John Cale Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Rock Song: Fear Is a Man's Best Friend Album: The Island Years Ladytron Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Electronic Song: Ghosts Album: Velocifero Jukebox the Ghost Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Alternative Song: Where Are All the Scientists Now? Album: Let Live and Let Ghosts Mekons Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Alternative Song: Psycho Cupid (Danceband on the Edge of Time) Album: Fear and Whiskey Bob Schneider Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Rock Song: Ghosts (Bonus Track) Album: Lovely Creatures (Bonus Track Version) The Dears Buy: iTunes.com Genre: Alternative Song: Fear Made the World Go Round Album: Gang of Losers The Low Anthem Buy: iTunes.com...
- 10/29/2010
- by Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin
- Huffington Post
The Good Wife returns tonight (CBS, 10 p.m. Et), and Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and Will (Josh Charles, pictured) will be dealing with the growing sexual tension that had us rewinding the March 16 episode. Charles recently phoned PopWatch for a spoiler-free chat about Mr. Gardner and Mrs. Florrick, former Georgetown classmates who now work together at a Chicago law firm. He's a single partner; she's a married, mother-of-two junior associate who just used her disgraced politician husband (Chris Noth) -- now on house arrest and sleeping in a guest room -- for sex after she and Will (finally?) shared a kiss.
- 4/6/2010
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Maria Muldaur, one of the finest interpreters of the American songbook, brings her new show to The Rrazz Room, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, Sf, December 14-15. Performances are at 8 Pm. Tickets are $30 ($35 at the door) and can be purchased at www.therrazzroom.com or directly through www.ticketweb.com or 866 468 3399.
Maria Muldaur's musical roots run deep. Born and raised in New York City's Greenwich Village, Muldaur was surrounded by bluegrass, jazz, blues and gospel music, but her very first musical influences were from the records of country and western singers. As a teenager, Maria tuned into early rhythm and blues, became interested in ‘girl groups' and formed her own, The Cashmeres, while in high school.
As pop radio became less soulful, Maria turned to the wealth of American roots music. Soon she was hanging out and joining nightly jams and song swaps called hootenannies. Maria joined The Friends of Old Timey Music,...
Maria Muldaur's musical roots run deep. Born and raised in New York City's Greenwich Village, Muldaur was surrounded by bluegrass, jazz, blues and gospel music, but her very first musical influences were from the records of country and western singers. As a teenager, Maria tuned into early rhythm and blues, became interested in ‘girl groups' and formed her own, The Cashmeres, while in high school.
As pop radio became less soulful, Maria turned to the wealth of American roots music. Soon she was hanging out and joining nightly jams and song swaps called hootenannies. Maria joined The Friends of Old Timey Music,...
- 11/5/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Paul Westerberg Singer/songwriter Paul Westerberg, former frontman of Minneapolis alt-rock legends The Replacements, is a song wizard oozing with anthem. This prolific writer went solo in 1991, and has released about ten projects since '93. Westerberg's also contributed to many soundtracks, notably I Am Sam, Open Season, Smart People, and Singles. Collaborations include Joan Jett, Hal Wilner, and former Replacements cohort Tommy Stinson. It's hard not to appreciate the depth of Westerberg's lyrical intuition and melody. The title "Let the Bad Times Roll," from the Catch and Release soundtrack, should be required listening. Buy: iTunes Genre: Rock Artist: Paul Westerberg Song: Let the Bad Times Roll Album: "Catch and Release" Soundtrack Skip James Bluesman Skip James was born Nehemia Curtis James in the Mississippi Delta in 1902, the son of a preacher and reformed bootlegger. As a teen, he held...
- 4/17/2009
- by Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin
- Huffington Post
Hometown: Austin, Texas
Band Members: Black Joe Lewis (vocals, guitar), Zach Ernst (guitar), David McKnight (tenor sax), Eduardo Ramirez (baritone sax), Darren Sluyter (trumpet), Bill Stevenson (bass), Matt Strmiska (drums), Ian Varley (keyboard)
Album: Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
For Fans Of: James Brown, Skip James, Howlin' Wolf
When you watch Black Joe Lewis enthrall a crowd of hipsters with soul riffs hotter than Bo Diddley’s kitchen stove, keep one thing in mind: the 27-year-old performer is still figuring out just what he’s capable of. On Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is, Lewis' first full-length album, (out March 17 via Lost Highway) the soul screamer and his Honeybears band combine an instantly familiar sound with a raw, modern potential and an uppercut-quick delivery (the album's ten tracks clock in at less than 35 minutes). But, Lewis says, “A lot of the times I find that when we go in to record,...
Band Members: Black Joe Lewis (vocals, guitar), Zach Ernst (guitar), David McKnight (tenor sax), Eduardo Ramirez (baritone sax), Darren Sluyter (trumpet), Bill Stevenson (bass), Matt Strmiska (drums), Ian Varley (keyboard)
Album: Tell 'Em What Your Name Is
For Fans Of: James Brown, Skip James, Howlin' Wolf
When you watch Black Joe Lewis enthrall a crowd of hipsters with soul riffs hotter than Bo Diddley’s kitchen stove, keep one thing in mind: the 27-year-old performer is still figuring out just what he’s capable of. On Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is, Lewis' first full-length album, (out March 17 via Lost Highway) the soul screamer and his Honeybears band combine an instantly familiar sound with a raw, modern potential and an uppercut-quick delivery (the album's ten tracks clock in at less than 35 minutes). But, Lewis says, “A lot of the times I find that when we go in to record,...
- 4/13/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
This is the second in what I hope will be a fairly extensive series highlighting some of the terrific performances by old-school blues musicians that can be found online, begun last week with Sister Rosetta. This week, here’s a few songs by Nehemiah “Skip” James, whose high-pitched, haunting vocals are one of the most distinctive in the genre. Born in 1902 in Bentonia, Mississippi, James’ recording career is remarkably sparse even for such an often poorly documented genre as Delta blues. He recorded just a handful of songs in 1931, of which only 18 have survived; with the Great Depression at its height, none sold well, and James quit the blues to join his minister father (who, like his son, was a former bootlegger) in the church. Three decades later, he was rediscovered as the folk/blues revival of the early 1960s was beginning, and was among...
- 5/8/2008
- avclub.com
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