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Country music influenced rock and roll and a lot of rock musicians like country music. These genres have a lot more in common than one would think. To pay tribute to country music and its influence on rock and roll (especially in the early days with rockabilly), we will talk about the source material, what inspired

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Here’s part two of our series on Country rock and musicians who inspired it like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, and more.

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The English hitmaker Dido is set to return with her first album in five years. Titled Still On My Mind, it’s due for release on March 8th through BMG. The forthcoming effort serves as Dido’s fifth overall and follow-up to Girl Who Got Away, the 2013 LP which featured producers Jeff Bhasker and Greg Kurstin.…

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Back in March, Sade contributed her first new song in seven years, “Flower of the Universe”, to the film A Wrinkle in Time. Another new song from the R&B legend appears in Steve McQueen’s latest feature, Widows. Entitled “The Big Unknown”, Sade wrote the song specifically for Widows’ final scene. “Over a series of conversations with…

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The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978. The original band consisted of initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). Following the drug-related deaths of Honeyman-Scott […]

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Early lineups (1970–1974) Rob Parissi (lead vocals & guitar) was raised in the steel mill town of Mingo Junction, Ohio. He graduated from Mingo High School in 1968, and formed the band Wild Cherry in 1970 in Steubenville, Ohio.[3] The band’s name ‘Wild Cherry’ was taken from a box of cough drops.[4] The band played […]

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