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Surf King

Guitar pioneer Dick Dale is rocking like never before at 60

By Robert Meyerowitz
Jul 17, 1997

Thirty-six years after the first cascading notes from Dick Dale's Stratocaster signaled to the landlocked U.S. that something called surf music was happening in California, Dale, now 60, lives in the desert. Long gone from his old haunts around Newport and Balboa, he retreated several years ago to a concrete...
Get It While You Can

Jerry Ragavoy and the ghost of Janis Joplin

By Robert Meyerowitz
Jun 12, 1997

The new collection Songs of Janis Joplin: Blues Down Deep is merely the latest in a series of outrages foisted upon a gullible public by the House of Blues, a nightclub chain and music label that seems to think we were all born yesterday; but for sheer chutzpah, it may...
Back in the Game

Chicago soul singer Syl Johnson is reborn with a little help from the homeboys

By Robert Meyerowitz
May 8, 1997

There are a lot of good and even excellent blues guitarists, but players of the subtlest instrument, soul-blues singers, are an increasingly rare treat. That's why Chicago singer Syl Johnson's pending gig at the Rhythm Room is the kind of show rabid Japanese fans would sell their limbs to see...
King Bobby

Bobby Fuller billed himself "The Rock & Roll King of the Southwest." His reign was short. He dropped acid, died young and left behind some of the wildest rock guitar ever.

By Robert Meyerowitz
Apr 24, 1997

The term "roots" music has come to mean almost everything that's good and older than the day before yesterday, including rockabilly, swing, soul and ethnic forms like polka, salsa and conjunto. It's gotten easier just to say what roots doesn't cover: music on the charts or MTV, apparently, and anything...
Heaven

Rise up with the Al Green Anthology

By Robert Meyerowitz
Mar 20, 1997

If boxed sets are an honor and not just a sales ploy, then no contemporary artist deserves one more than Al Green, whose earliest and finest work is compiled in a four-disc set released on Valentine's Day. The timing was right. Not only is Green the greatest living soul singer,...

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