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 ...
The other day we were discussing with a group of young people (< 25 years) what we consider to be the dismal condition of popular music these days. Astonishingly, we didn’t hear the usual “you can’t compare it to rock ‘n roll forty years ago” or “well, your parents didn’t understand Woodstock,” or “you ...
Regular site visitors know that we like to keep tabs (pun intended) on vintage artists who we think successfully bridge the gap between the baby boomer rock era and Music 2.0. This week’s “Where Are They Now?” post features ex-Funk Brother and Motown session guitarist Dennis Coffey, otherwise known around here as “Mr. Distortion.” ...