Wednesday 18 July 2012
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Bob Babbitt RIP
Babbitt passed away yesterday (July 16) after he lost his ongoing fight with brain cancer. He died at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, where he had lived for many years, reports the Associated Press.
The bassist played on a series of seminal tracks during his career, including the likes of Stevie Wonder's 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours', Smokey Robinson's 'The Tears of a Clown', Marvin Gaye's 'Inner City Blues' and Edwin Starr's 'War.'
He also played on recordings with the likes of Bette Midler, Jim Croce, Bonnie Raitt and Frank Sinatra, and, in all, contributed to over 200 Top 40 hit singles.
Speaking about Babbitt, former Motown engineer Ed Wolfrum said: "Bob was a teddy bear of a guy and he was an extraordinary musician — a player's player."
Babbitt is survived by his wife, Ann Kreinar, and their children, Carolyn, Joseph and Karen.
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New Dylan Album Coming September 11
Tempest is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon. The new album, produced by Jack Frost, is the 35thth studio set from Bob Dylan, and follows 2009’s worldwide best-seller, Together Through Life.
Bob Dylan’s four previous studio albums have been universally hailed as among the best of his storied career, achieving new levels of commercial success and critical acclaim for the artist. The Platinum-selling Time Out Of Mind from 1997 earned multiple Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year, while “Love and Theft” continued Dylan’s Platinum streak and earned several Grammy nominations and a statue for Best Contemporary Folk album.
Modern Times, released in 2006, became one of the artist’s most popular albums, selling more than 2.5 million copies worldwide and earning Dylan two more Grammys. Together Through Life became the artist’s first album to debut at #1 in both the U.S. and the UK, as well as in five other countries, on its way to surpassing sales of one million copies.
Those four releases fell within a 12-year creative span that also included the recording of an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning composition, “Things Have Changed,” from the film Wonder Boys, in 2001; a worldwide best-selling memoir, Chronicles Vol. 1, which spent 19 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List, in 2004, and a Martin Scorsese-directed documentary, No Direction Home, in 2005. Bob Dylan also released his first collection of holiday standards, Christmas In The Heart, in 2009, with all of the artist’s royalties from that album being donated to hunger charities around the world.
This year, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” He was also the recipient of the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and several Doctorates including the University of St. Andrews and Princeton University as well as numerous other honors.
Tempest is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon
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Jon Lord RIP
NO you fugn weren't!!! And as 'Smoke On The Water' shall never sully this blog I give you...
'Queen of Country Music' Kitty Wells dies
Born Ellen Muriel Deason Wright, Wells passed away peacefully with family by her side at her home Monday morning following complications from a stroke.
Kitty Wells started her career with her late husband Johnnie Wright in 1937.
In 1952 she was the first female singer to reach No. 1 on the country charts with her song, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels."
She reigned as country music's top female singer for the next 14 consecutive years and in 1976, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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My review of Laura Cantrell's 2011 tribute album to Kitty Wells for The F-Word is here
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