Elektra Records is sixty, as in the big 6-0. Expert Eagles fans shouldn’t have much trouble identifying Warner Brothers’ Elektra or Elektra/Asylum. Its logo has spun countless times on turntables and graces the small print on the band’s album jackets, cassettes and CDs. Alongside those Eagles discs were probably several other Elektra artists, perhaps ...
We’ve been Gordon Lightfoot fans for a long time. Even back before it was hip. But asking us to name our favorite from his 250+ song catalog is like, well, asking us to choose a favorite child. We can, however, easily place “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” in our top five without having to second guess, ...
Nurtured in the big band era and best known for his thirty-year stint behind the drum kit of the Johnny Carson Tonight Show Band, Ed Shaughnessy’s percussion credentials can only be termed galactic. Goodman, Dorsey, Basie. How about being able to drop those names at a job interview? Shaughnessy’s work has appeared on over 500 ...