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Craft Recordings To Release The Staple Singers Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection On November 13Th

By Harvey Kubernik Copyright 2020  Craft Recordings is thrilled to announce a deluxe CD edition of Come Go With Me: The Stax Collection scheduled for a November 13th retail release.  The acclaimed box set, which was previously released on vinyl digital formats,...

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John Mayall Autobiography

Blues From Laurel Canyon: John Mayall: My Life as a Bluesman Just Published   BY HARVEY KUBERNIK ©...

CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC

By Harvey Kubernik © 2019  The 5 CD deluxe box set edition of COUNTRY MUSIC - A Film By Ken Burns...

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For Leon Russell

For Leon Russell

By Harvey Kubernik c 2016 Multi-instrumentalist Leon Russell, the former Claude Russell Bridges, left the physical world on November 13th, dying of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee. I met Leon in 1978. I spent six weeks at his Paradise recording studio in North...

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Leonard Cohen: Cohen’s New Skin

Leonard Cohen: Cohen’s New Skin

Author and rock music historian Harvey Kubernik is our resident wordsmith and pop culture chronicler at www.cavehollywood.com Two years ago Harvey penned a critically acclaimed book on Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows.  It traces the artistic journey of Cohen the young...

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JIMI HENDRIX MACHINE GUN: THE FILLMORE EAST FIRST SHOW

JIMI HENDRIX MACHINE GUN: THE FILLMORE EAST FIRST SHOW

12/31/69 RELEASED ON CD, 2 LP 180 GRAM VINYL, HIGH RESOLUTION SACD AND DIGITAL FORMATS By Harvey Kubernik c 2016 Experience Hendrix L.L.C. and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, have just released Machine Gun: The Fillmore East First...

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Motown: Reel and Real

Motown: Reel and Real

By Harvey Kubernik c 2016 There have been many books about Motown and many Motown books. With the September publication of Motown The Sound of Young America, by Adam White with Barney Ales, including a marvelous foreword by Andrew Loog Oldham, we finally now have the...

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Mike Love’s GOOD VIBRATIONS: My Life as a Beach Boy

Mike Love’s GOOD VIBRATIONS: My Life as a Beach Boy

Harvey Kubernik on Mike Love’s new autobiography By Harvey Kubernik c 2016 The Beach Boys are arguably the most popular American rock band of all time, with thirteen Gold Albums, fifty-five Top 100 singles, and four #1 hits, spanning more than five decades.  The...

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Jerry Heller: Legendary Booking Agent and Manager of N.W.A.

Jerry Heller: Legendary Booking Agent and Manager of N.W.A.

By Harvey Kubernik c 2016 Visionary booking agent and artist manager, Jerry Heller, who served as N.W.A.'s manager, who in the mid- 1980’s at Macola Records in Los Angeles, where he first met Eazy-E (Eric Wright) and helped launch Ruthless records in 1987, N.W.A.’s...

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