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Bill Wyman Archive Auction; Wyman Interview

Goin’ Home With The Rolling Stones ’66  Gered Mankowitz New Photography Book Due in October   By Harvey Kubernik © 2020 The Rolling Stones original bassist, Bill Wyman, recently auctioned items related to the band, collected by him during his long tenure with the...

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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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BANG! The Bert Berns Story Out This Fall

BANG! The Bert Berns Story Out This Fall

Harvey Kubernik interview with BANG! co- director and editor Bob Sarles © 2017 Harvey Kubernik “BANG! The Bert Berns Story is the best music doc that I have seen. There is enough stuff for the geeks and for the newcomers to Bert Berns’ music. Seen it 4 times, could...

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Steely Dan and Walter Becker Interviews

By Harvey Kubernik c 2009 c 2011 c 2017 Walter Becker, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and co-founder of Steely Dan with Donald Fagen has died this past Sunday at the age of 67. No cause of death was announced. Fagen wrote a posted tribute to Becker, stressing, “I...

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O-T-I-S!

O-T-I-S!

Otis Redding’s legacy continues and expands as the immortal singer and songwriter enjoys a visibility and retail renaissance. By Harvey Kubernik c 2017 Redding was previously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Georgia Music Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of...

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John Coltrane: An Appreciation

John Coltrane: An Appreciation

By Harvey Kubernik c 2017 Saxophonist John Coltrane died on July 17, 1967 in Huntington Hospital in Huntington, New York in Long Island after a brief bout with liver cancer. “Mourned by as many rock musicians as those from the jazz world, he was a courtly, soft-spoken...

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Robin Trower New Album Time and Emotion

Robin Trower New Album Time and Emotion

2017 Central and Western U.S. tour dates in June By Harvey Kubernik c2017 British blues rock guitar statesman Robin Trower first achieved commercial and critical success with Procol Harum during the late 1960s before emerging as the bandleader of his own trio in 1974....

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