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Rock n' roll, boy bands, jazz trios, and more; the greats, newbies, and forgotten icons who create our favorite groups.
The Story of The Stools
Popular legend, or at least Boris Scilley writing in Cadenza Magazine, has it that in the spring of 1952 a half bright guitar player named Elvin Anderson went down to the crossroads of Highway 61 and Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, grip and guitar in hand, and waited. It was the same spot where, some 21 years earlier, Robert Johnson had made a deal with a rakish devil named Ike Zinnerman to learn how to play the blues.
By Lance Norris5 years ago in Beat
The Story of The Stools
Back in 1950 Hank Williams came off the road and went to visit his wife, Audrey, in the hospital. She was suffering from the aftermath and infection from a self-administered abortion. Like Hank, she had no compunction about knocking boots when her spouse wasn’t around and the rumor around the whiskey cooler was that Florida Bandleader and general dickhead Pappy Neil McCormick was the father. He was a steel guitar player and fronted his band The Hawaiian Troubadours (so called to hide the fact they were all Creek Indians and not exotic Pacific Islanders).
By Lance Norris5 years ago in Beat
The Story of The Stools
The savage and heartless Story of The Stools really starts in the early 1950's, before there was even a band. American Folklorist and ethnomusicologist, a musical grave robber of sorts mewling for his daddy’s approval, Alan Lomax was collecting field recordings in the deep south, unaware Congress had cut off funding for the Library of Congress' folk song collection some ten years earlier.
By Lance Norris5 years ago in Beat
The O.G. Art-School Punks
The Talking Heads punk-rock street cred is undeniable. Sure they didn't dress like The Ramones or sound like Dead Boy. They weren't going to piss in your parent's houseplants but they weren't going to play it straight either. Started by three art school students fresh to the Big Apple by way of Rhode Island, Talking Heads came at an exciting time, CBGB was experiencing a golden moment, birthing America's response to the UK's Clash and Sex Pistols, music videos were coming soon and The Heads' snarky subversive, poly-rhythmic songs, flavored more by Fela Kuti than Sid Vicious were unlike anything at the time or prior.
By Jesse Stanek5 years ago in Beat
The Story of The Stools
The story of The Stools is a long and disturbing fish hatchery of lies and cruel treacheries, almost as protracted and slimy as the story of Rock Music itself, and just a full of bottom-feeders, chondrichthians and aborted roe as your standard creche nursery. The logical place to start this fish tale is in 1956 with the release of the band’s first long playing album, Draconian Messures (sic), if for no other reason than Dutchco Music is releasing remastered versions of the entire Stools catalog with the hopes of introducing The Stools to a new generation of fans and milking a dead horse one last time.
By Lance Norris5 years ago in Beat
On the Radio
I remember Memory Almost Full. With the release, subsequent purchase and the hardly-wait-until-I-can-get-it-out-of-the-stupid-cellophane preview of Paul McCartney’s new album came a torrent of thoughts, emotions, ideas and yes – memories. Memory Almost Full was exactly what I needed from Sir Paul at that juncture of my life. It felt like the Beatles, of course, because to me Paul was the Beatles. I mean, I loved the other Beatles too but Paul was always the Beatle (if there can be such a thing as a singular Beatle). The Christmas before that, I had purchased a Remix of Beatles songs in an album entitled, simply, Love. I wore it out, of course. I cherished everything by the Beatles. But Memory Almost Full was different. It is like the old days. There wasn’t that mixing hand that showed through with Love. Love was everything about the Beatles, but Memory Almost Full took me back. It was au natural.
By John Oliver Smith5 years ago in Beat
Breaking Benjamin: A Band With A Story to Tell
I won't lie, my taste of music is all over the map. From heavy metal and hard rock, to fiddle music and jazz, there's not much I won't listen to. I typically take an interest in the lyrics, and the stories being told in the songs I listen to (for example, I recently expanded my horizons into rap when my boyfriend introduced me to Machine Gun Kelly). But, that's not what my purpose is today. Today, I want to showcase songs from one of my all time favorite bands, Breaking Benjamin.
By Lindsay Dewolfe5 years ago in Beat
