Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Here’s something a bit off the wall. I was daydreaming and got to thinking about how popular music over the last hundred years or so has moved in bursts of creativity, and from place to place. Its evolution has tended to happen as a series of musical revolutions. Similarly, different places have had their golden eras [...]
Marksonland (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
It occurred to me today that this decade has no sound readily identifiable with it. No specific sound anyway, or any specific acts. Thinking back to past decades, identifying the signature sound and acts is pretty easy: The 90's: grunge...
kellya | 03/10/2008
He attributed his skill to his early experience as a dancer which, he said, gave him ‘an understanding of rhythmic time’ As the drummer on early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, Earl Palmer helped to invent the backbeat that came to define the sound of rock ’n’ roll. Yet the propulsive rhythm he provided on such seminal 1950s recordings as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally was merely
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
That New Orleans R&B is among the most significant influences in American music is a given. Precisely where it ranks among the other influencers is subject to long and entertaining debate. Beyond argument, however, is the influence Allen Toussaint has had on New Orleans R&B over the past 50 years. His fingerprints are all over it.
On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The Song Box Ninth Season! Now in Seaford on the same program: Return To The Dream (Martha Trachtenberg, Tom Griffith, Diane Garisto, & Andy Huenerberg) Return To The Dream Return To The Dream is an alternative acoustic band that draws on folk, pop, rock, blues and bluegrass influences to create their original music. [...]
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Heaven Just Got Funkier Earl Palmer, perhaps the most recorded drummer in the history of popular American music, died last Friday at the age of 84. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, the New Orleans native set the beat for an amazing variety of artists, including, Fats Domino, Sam Cooke, [...]
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
"I've never been here before, so I'm gonna stay awhile."
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Nappy Brown, a veteran R&B vocalist and prolific blues performer, died last weekend at the age of 78. After launching his career in the 1950s, Brown joined such artists as Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Fats Domino in the first wave of African-American musicians to enjoy popularity amongst white audiences. [TheCharlottePost.com] Matador Records continues its reissuing [...]
9-9 (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Terça-feira, 23 de Setembro de 2008 @ 00:05 Gostei de ler/ver/ouvir[] BloguesMúsica, cinema, arte, fotografia, televisão, banda desenhada, etc... (Quase) tudo e ainda mais alguns assuntos... Política e actualidade. Temáticos.[O Porto] [Língua Portuguesa] [Cromos de Futebol] [Mulheres] [Revistas antigas] [Sondagens] [Anos 80] [Informática] [As ruas do Porto] [Bilhetes de Concertos] [Anúncios de Imprensa]...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
WHEN rock was young, he was the drummer – a man who understood the music through race, soul, sex, family and experience.
ClickPress (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Tony Allen's aunt nicknamed him the Night Owl because he was always staying out late at night.
the "A" side (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Honky Tonk Part II EARL PALMER 1924-2008 "He was my right hand. He was a professor of music... it's like I died myself." - Dave Bartholomew Earl Palmer joined Bartholomew's band in 1947, and it was his drums on Fats Domino's 1949 breakthrough record, The Fat Man , that essentially created Rock & Roll. As the number one session man at Cosimo's J&M Studio there on Rampart Street, the big beat he laid...
The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Another final farewell, this time to the great New Orleans drummer Earl Palmer who has died aged 84. Earl was a central figure in New Orleans R and B, providing the back beat for, among many others, Fats Domino (The Fat Man, I'm Walkin'), Little Richard (Tutti Frutti, Long Tall Sally), Lloyd Price (Lawdy Miss Clawdy) and Smiley Lewis (I Hear You Knocking) at Cosimo's studio. After moving to LA he backed...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
R+B drummer EARL PALMER has died at the age of 84. The New Orleans-native died Friday (19Sep08) at his Los Angeles home after fighting a lengthy illness, according to ...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
As the drummer on early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, Earl Palmer helped to invent the backbeat that came to define the sound of rock’n’roll. Yet the propulsive rhythm he provided on such seminal 1950s recordings as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally was merely the start of a long and illustrious career that spanned every genre of music.
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kellya | 03/10/2008
He attributed his skill to his early experience as a dancer which, he said, gave him ‘an understanding of rhythmic time’ As the drummer on early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard, Earl Palmer helped to invent the backbeat that came to define the sound of rock ’n’ roll. Yet the propulsive rhythm he provided on such seminal 1950s recordings as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally was merely
