New on Rock’s BackpagesTHIS WEEK we’re featuring – for one week only – e
New on Rock’s BackpagesTHIS WEEK we’re featuring – for one week only – exclusive audio of Bob Marley talking to Karl Dallas the day after the Wailers played a legendary show at London’s Lyceum on 18th July, 1975. Hear the interview for free till Friday, then read the Melody Maker piece that resulted from it – along with Vivien Goldman’s account of dropping in on Bob in Jamaica four years later.The week’s featured writer (and our next podcast guest) is Miles Marshall Lewis, whose biography of the brilliant Kendrick Lamar is published this week. Miles’ Ebony review of To Pimp a Butterfly is revisited here, as is a 2013 interview with Wynton Marsalis… who just happens to be the week’s new audio interviewee (in a 1996 conversation with Tony Scherman). By way of bidding farewell to Alan Lancaster and George Frayne IV, we’re also offering 1976 interviews with Status Quo and Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen.Subscribers can, of course, access the 50+ new articles added to the RBP library, including:Robert Shelton reviewing the Byrds @ Village Gate in 1966Ronnie Hawkins in hot water with former charges The Band in 1969John Morthland in New Orleans with the Ohio Players in 1981Sandy Robertson meeting “Hollywood’s prince of darkness” Warren Zevon in 1985Phranc onbeing an “all-American Jewish lesbian folk singer” in 1991New RBP recruit Mark Rozzo lauds “ultimate cult album” Big Star Third/Sister Lovers in 1993And, from 2015, David Toop revisiting Coltrane’s classic Love Supreme…We sick and tired of-a your ism-schism gameDying ‘n’ going to heaven in-a Jesus’ name… -- source link
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