Kim Simmonds
The first Savoy Brown record was released in 1967. The last in 2020. And in the 53 years in between, English guitarist and bandleader Kim Simmonds never varied his commitment to the Blues.
The first Savoy Brown record was released in 1967. The last in 2020. And in the 53 years in between, English guitarist and bandleader Kim Simmonds never varied his commitment to the Blues.
You’ve just ended the most productive creative partnership in the history of popular music. Now who do you call? If you’re Paul McCartney in 1970, the answer is Denny Laine. Though never as famous as the music he made, the guitarist and songwriter whose birth name was Brian Hines, was a mainstay of the British rock universe from the early sixties when he founded The Moody Blues with a couple of mates from Birmingham.
You’ve lost that loving feeling. On Broadway. Here you come again. We’ve got to out of this place. He’s so shy. The names of the songs she wrote are more familiar to most of us than the name of the woman who wrote them.
Although just five feet eight inches in height, Burt Bacharach towered over the field in songwriting stature for more than half a century. Working in a style that was decidedly out of style by the late 1960s, Bacharach and his lyricist partner Hal David transcended musical fashion, combining unconventional song structures and complex orchestral touches
He made his first record in 1952 and his last in 2021. In the six decades in-between, Tony Bennett became the foremost interpreter of the Great American Songbook and maybe the most beloved entertainer of all time, earning 20 Grammy Awards, a Gershwin Prize and Kennedy Center Honors.
Jesse Gress was an extraordinary American rock guitarist. Over the years, he toured and recorded extensively with Todd Rundgren and the Tony Levin Band. A performer, music educator, and former music editor of Guitar Player Magazine, Gress has hundreds of transcription folios and magazine articles to his credit