Results for Fats Domino
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by Denise Sullivan•August 13, 2008•
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and teller of tall tales, Gramps has spent a lifetime plundering the treasures of the old world, told and untold, ever since he was a young man—probably the youngest person on the planet to have ever gone by the sobriquet Gramps (that's where the Baby comes in). These days, as back then, he keeps alive early 20th century standards like "Teddy Bears' Picnic", "St. James Infirmary", and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" along with lesser-known
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by j. poet•July 23, 2008•
"a Lord I feel so bad but the audience is still giving me a standing ovation kind of blues"
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by Denise Sullivan•October 24, 2007•
Were it not for the cheap amp set up in the Davies family's Muswell Hill sitting room and young guitarist Dave's willfulness to go at it with a razor blade in the early '60s, the distorted, heavy metal riff that is known the world over as the heart of "You Really Got Me"
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by Denise Sullivan•October 3, 2007•
If you listen closely to Ron Franklin's music, you can almost hear the sound of space and time jumping the tracks. It happens when he shifts from his electric rhythm guitar blasts into a lonesome slide lead, or when his wrangly, whisper-from-the-past vocals
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by Howard Wyman•August 29, 2007•
No Age is a drum/guitar duo ensconced in the L.A. skater-punk art scene. They make correspondingly blissed-out art-punk with lo-fi pop accessibility
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