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A Brief History of King Crimson: 1969-1974 Despite the fact that a great deal of the music played by the original Crimson lineup of Robert Fripp/Ian McDonald/Greg Lake/Michael Giles/Peter Sinfield was, indeed, part of the progressive scene, there is no question that the entity that is King Crimson, has transcended that initial identity and a good many others besides. The band has thrived on personnel changes and as a result, on musical change as well

Knockin' 'Em Down In The City: Iggy Pop--The Arista Years Iggy was pretty much down for the count at the time Arista signed him. When former Columbia stalwart Clive Davis found that Iggy had been signed to his fledgling label he wouldn't even commit to releasing the albums in the U.S.

Blue Jean Baby Blue jean music. It's a term that describes the early-to-mid-seventies style that is piano based, usually by female singer/songwriters (not always, though), and represents some of the inner searching that followed the outward, protest-based expressions of the 1960s. Some call this the "singer-songwriter era", and there is no question that was a predominant piece of the pop music pie, but the recordings I'm speaking of evoke the time in which they were recorded, a time that, in my mind, was simpler in many ways
The Revolution Will Not Be Homogenized Back in 1968, the music scene was undergoing a revolution that had nothing to do with MP3, but the overall effects were just as far-reaching. Black popular music had been neatly divided by the music industry into jazz, blues, R&B, and gospel, but as more listeners (both black and white) discovered these segmented genres they began to be drawn together into a cohesive whole that threatened to create a new black identity in America. Jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Ramsey Lewis began to seek ways to bring blues and gospel back into jazz music.
 

 

 

 

 

 

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