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An artist can never foresee what the next step in his/her career is going to be, because very often and inevitably, through time, plans do change, because life changes around us.
When American cult Rock Band The Airborne Toxic Event released their last studio album called Hollywood Park, back in 2020, a record where the band's chief songwriter and frontman Mikel Jollett delved heavily on the early stages of his life and in particular, about his relationship with Jollett's father, an ex con man and ex heroin addict, with some of the songs written from the perspective of Jollett's father, it would have perhaps been an easy decision to write more about this difficult family dynamic on a follow-up record, given the consensus received from fans and press, when Hollywood Park got released.
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It's always challenging to review a new record, no matter the genres, where an artist surrounds him/herself by an array of Special Guests, playing literally on each and every song of said record.
While the attraction, for some music lovers and for a new body of work like the one mentioned above, may come from big names taking part to the record itself, it's when the album features the real core of the artist in question the factor that really elevates the overall quality of the finished product.
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Looking at the history and the development of a music genre like the Blues, especially throughout the last 6 decades, nobody on earth could deny that the American guitarist, producer and songwriter Steve Cropper has been and still is, at the tender age of 82, one of the greatest innovators of the genre, especially through the monumental body of work that Cropper did with Stax Records and, subsequently, with the cream of the Blues and Rock'N'Roll industry.
Forever considered a forward-thinker artist, somebody that would never sit comfortably on his fame and success, Cropper (and his unmistakable guitar playing style) has been the ultimate Guitar Maestro for any aspiring musician for so many years as he still is now, second perhaps only to the late great Jimi Hendrix, according to some worldwide press.
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When people talk about living music legends, they often refer to artists that have established themselves through the course of several decades, managing somehow to stay in people's minds, in many cases, because of a couple of more inspired, highly selling records that made their fortune throughout their careers.
Somebody that was destined to be one of said living music legends, since the very beginning of her glorious career to date, is the prodigious American singer Shemekia Copeland, unanimously considered already, at the age of 45 and by some of the most illustrious names in the music business, as one of the greatest Americana singers of the last half a century.
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Carrying a legendary family name, sometimes, may feel like a double-edged sword, especially when an artist needs to deal with pressure and expectations coming from said family name.
In that respect, the story of Jazz giant John Coltrane's second wife, Alice, has been often and unjustifiably underrated by the press, especially after her musical conversion to Hindu music on the second half of the '70s.
Read more: Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971)
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There is no wonder why music can be considered as the sole art form able to translate human feelings and natural phenomenon happening around us truthfully, no matters whether said feelings or phenomenon are related to dramatic or more romantic and gentle moments.
The Italian Saxophonist and Composer Extraordinaire Gianni Savelli knows very well how to represent, through music and his own talent and creativity, the aforementioned sensations, thanks also to the experience accumulated by the Italian artist through the many bodies of work that Savelli has been able to generate in various art-forms, throughout the last 40 years of his illustrious career.
