Bobby Caldwell was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He released several albums spanning R&B, soul, jazz and adult contemporary. Known for his soulful and versatile vocals, Caldwell released the hit single and his signature song “What You Won’t Do For Love” in 1978, from his double platinum debut album.
You could be forgiven for wondering if there was a major musical moment in the past sixty years when Robbie Robertson wasn’t in the room. As the lead songwriter and guitarist for a band so accomplished it didn’t need a name, he prided himself on creating songs that could have been written a century before
Michael Rhodes was an extraordinary bassist who sadly left us in March 2023. A Nashville staple since the late ’70s, his incredibly long list of credits includes recordings for Willie Nelson, Etta James, Mark Knopfler, Alan Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Brian Wilson, Joss Stone, Dolly Parton, the (Dixie) Chicks, J.J. Cale, Wynonna, Merle Haggard, Amy Grant, Hank Williams Jr, the Highwaymen, John Oates, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Dave Stewart, Keith Whitley, Joan Baez, Lionel Richie, Burt Bacharach, Aaron Neville, Johnny Cash, Buddy Guy, Grace Potter, Michael McDonald, Jennifer Holiday, John Fogerty, Elton John and Joan Osborne.
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
When an eagle flies, it might be the flash of feathers that catches your eye, but it’s the mighty muscle underneath that keeps it aloft. For the musical Eagles, that muscle was provided by Randy Meisner.
Robin Bachman was a Canadian drummer and the youngest brother of guitarist, singer and songwriter Randy Bachman. He was the original drummer for the Bachman-Turner Overdrive band.