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Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul 180 Black Vinyl June 27th Re-Release From Rhino Records Reserve collection. 

By Harvey Kubernik © 2025       Between 1962 and 1967, Otis Redding was a creative dynamo, recording frequently at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee with Booker T. & The MG’s – keyboardist Booker T. Jones, guitarist Steve Cropper,...

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Moby Grape 

Moby Grape 

By Harvey Kubernik Copyright 2025        I revisited the work of Moby Grape in 2025.     During 2007, Columbia/Legacy Records released Listen My Friends! The Best of Moby Grape, which marked the 40th anniversary...

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Doors 60 th Anniversary

Doors 60 th Anniversary

In November 2024, the Doors kicked off the 2025 60th Anniversary with a new anniversary logo, a series of physical releases, and anthology book, and much more to be announced in the future. The Doors 1967-1971 6-LP set arrived as the latest installment in Rhino’s...

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LEON RUSSELL

LEON RUSSELL

   I was happy to learn a biography of Leon Russell by Bill Janowitz was going to be published by Hachette during March 2023. Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History.      I first saw...

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Record producer Bob Johnston on Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash

Record producer Bob Johnston on Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash

A conversation with Bob Johnston June 17th 2009, 40th Anniversary of Bob Dylan’s Epochal Nashville Skyline album "With ‘Nashville Skyline’ Dylan continued to box himself into the arena of the Beatles and, in particular, the Rolling Stones and show us all not only how...

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