Aux origines, le rhythm and blues qui signifie rythme et mélancolie désignait la musique issue du Gospel, du jazz et surtout du blues, créée par des musiciens et chanteurs noirs américains. Ce terme a été inventé par l'un des journalistes travaillant pour le très célèbre Billboard Magazine : Jerry Wexler. Ce magazine présente le classement de chansons selon différents critères tel que le style de musique ; ainsi il introduisit à la fin des années 1940 le terme « R'n'b » qui remplaça le terme « race music » utilisé auparavant et jugé trop péjoratif voire insultant. Ainsi, le rhythm [...]
Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel Jerry Wexler Executive Producer of Concept Album 'Willie & The Wheel' out 7th June on Proper Records Proper Records and Bismeaux Records are very pleased to announce the UK release of Willie & The Wheel , an album collaboration between Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel on June 7, 2010. Buy CDs, MP3s, more: [...]
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Freda and the Firedogs - EZ Rider Freda and the Firedogs were local legends in Austin, TX and a favorite of Doug Sahm's. Featuring a young Marcia Ball on vox, their lone 1972 record struck a sweet blend of Country & Western and Rhythm & Blues , was even produced by the man who coined that term, Jerry Wexler. It wasn't released for some regrettable reason until 2002. After catching about a hundred mentions in the new Doug [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Television The great Sam Cooke recorded his first pop single in 1956, after getting his start in gospel. His masterpiece, 'A Change Is Gonna Come,' was released in 1964, shortly after the singer's appalling death. On Monday, the PBS series ' American Masters ' premieres ' Sam Cooke: Crossing Over ,' a classy tribute to the singer's legacy with testimonials from Smokey Robinson , Sam Moore , the late James Brown and many others. Filmmaker John [...]
"I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together. All of a sudden, people made a big thing out of it. I can see how he got bitter toward the press. He couldn't take a shit without it being something heavy. That's being under the big gun, that pressure." --Doug Sahm to longtime compadres, Jim Groenenwegen and Bill Bentley, in the Austin Sun (1975) [...]
Man, music doesn't get any more fun than this. American master musician Willie Nelson singing a selection of Western Swing classics accompanied by Texas swingers Asleep at the Wheel - an unlikely union, to be sure. But this union was envisioned and engineered by master producer Jerry Wexler, who died last year. He was able to hear the result of this bit of genius before he passed, thank god. From the first licks of opener "Hesitation Blues" to the closer "Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon," this album rocks. Many of these songs were made famous by people like [...]
In the late 1970s, country rock had pretty much run the course - the Eagles had appropriated the best parts of the genre and their watered down music reigned from the top of the charts. The true innovators like Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark and Chris Hillman of the Byrds were left to cash in endlessly on their past reputations by playing their old songs as part of ridiculous package tours. That's where these boys found themselves in 1977, fronting their respective bands on a European jaunt. The promoter had visions of people coming out in hopes of seeing [...]
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"There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death," wrote esteemed poet/ author Kenneth Patchen. Yet the accrual of such dying over the course of a calendar year belies such "little"ness. As we nudge into the 21st century, the luminaries of the previous one begin to wane, the architects and innovators of prime American music forms: blues, jazz, folk, rock. The obituary page for 2008 may not feature so many marquee names, but the crucial people behind the stage—the gurus, the producers, the poster artists, the record executives, the session men—all continued to vanish [...]
How's this for timing: I move away from Chico ... Willie Nelson schedules a show in Chico (Jan. 14 for all you sunza bitches who live in the area). I now live in Portland ... and Willie has no shows scheduled in the Pacific Northwest. BUT. There is a Willie Nelson tribute night Nov. 21, and it will only cost us Portland-folk $9.87 (the station putting the show on is Portland's KUPL 98.7 ). That's about 65 bucks less than what you'd pay to actually see Willie Nelson (No. 88 on Rolling Stone's 100 [...]
How's this for timing: I move away from Chico ... Willie Nelson schedules a show in Chico (Jan. 14 for all you sunza bitches who live in the area). I now live in Portland ... and Willie doesn't schedule any shows in the Pacific Northwest. BUT. There is a Willie Nelson tribute night Nov. 21, where local artists will take a stab at the classics. AND. It will only cost us Portland-folk $9.87 (the station putting the show on is Portland's KUPL 98.7 ). That's about 65 bucks less than what you'd pay to actually see [...]
Jerry Wexler , who died on Friday, was instrumental in signing or producing some of the greatest artists of our time. Rolling Stone dubs him "The Man Who Invented Rhythm & Blues" . The Guardian recently called him "The Godfather of Soul" . Here at Ear Farm, however, we'd like to remember the music legend with help from a few of his acts. Aretha Franklin – " I Say A Little Prayer" Ray Charles – "Hit The Road Jack" Dusty Springfield – "Losing [...]
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1917–2008 The Adios Lounge would be remiss if we didn't acknowledge the passing of Jerry Wexler, who died Friday at the age of 91. I've often said that if I could live anyone else's life in history, I'd live Jerry Wexler's. He coined the phrase "rhythm and blues" while writing for Billboard, and when he was at Atlantic, he not only helped create rock 'n' roll, but later proved crucial in popularizing soul music. He worked with Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin at their peak, worked with Dusty Springfield and Wilson Pickett at [...]
Doug Sahm & Bob Dylan: Wallflower [ purchase ] Doug Sahm: Someday [ purchase ] Doug Sahm: Me And Paul [ purchase ] Doug Sahm: Juan Mendoza [ purchase ] "I worked with a lot of musicians over the years and had been very fortunate. There was something about Doug, though, that really intrigued me. The [...]
Record producer Jerry Wexler, who influenced the careers of singers including Aretha Franklin n, Ray Charles and Bob Dylan , died on friday at age 91 at his home in Sarasota, FL, USA . The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son, Paul. Mr Wexler was partner with the late Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records. As a writer with the trade magazine, Billboard, he coined the term "rhythm and blues" in the late 1940s. He produced the hugely popular Aretha Franklin hit Respect , which was a re-working of an [...]
Jerry Wexler was one of my heroes. As I got into soul music in my late teens, it seemed as though the credit "Produced by Jerry Wexler" was on every album I bought. Aretha Franklin . Ray Charles . Sam & Dave . Wilson Pickett. The Drifters. And on and on. In possession of an obsessive mind, I soon began reading pretty much everything I could about him, and as I made the decision to be in the record business, he quickly became someone I aspired to be. [...]
Music journalist, executive and producer Jerry Wexler died earlier today . Born in 1917, to an emigre Pole, Wexler had initially adopted journalism as a career after his mandated spell in the US Army. He joined Billboard in 1947, staying for four years - during this time coining the phrase "rhythm and blues" - before turning gamekeeper and joining a promotions company. Within a year, Ahmet Ertegun was sounding him out for a role at Atlantic Records; Wexler refused, holding out for a partnership. By 1953, Ertegun had come round to Wexler's way of thinking and sold [...]
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Record producer and executive Jerry Wexler passed away at his home early this morning. Wexler, whose career in the business began with a stint at Billboard where he coined the term "rhythm and blues," started at Atlantic Records in 1953; he later on to work with many of rock and soul's giants, including Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and Dusty Springfield. Rolling Stone has a Wexler-compiled playlist of his favorite 20 productions from a mix CD he burned for friends a few years ago; the tracklist includes Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man," [...]
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