Double Grammy star gives blues history “America’s Gift” five stars.

Double Grammy star gives blues history “America’s Gift” five stars.

Meet Laurence Juber, formerly with Paul McCartney and Wings and the greatest rock supergroup of all time. I was humbled recently to receive a five-star review on Amazon Books, from double Grammy winner Laurence Juber, for my paperback, ‘America’s Gift: The Untold Story of how Blues Evolved’. What made it a double whammy is Laurence…

Breaking down hard rock.

Breaking down hard rock.

Like the Kingsmen, Kinks, Cream, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath? This video’s for you. Now writing a history of rock and roll, I’ve just reached that period in the mid-1960s where blues-rock became hard-rock, which in turn became heavy metal. I remember it well, witnessing it explode around me. I saw Black…

Rock ’n’ roll colossus signs off, aged a Hot 100.

Rock ’n’ roll colossus signs off, aged a Hot 100.

Dave “I invented the big beat” Bartholomew 1918-2019. Born Davis Bartholomew in Louisiana in 1918, Dave helped write and record some of early rock ’n’ roll’s most enduring hits, including ‘Lawdy Miss Clawdy’ for Lloyd Price in 1952, ‘Ain’t That a Shame’ in 1955 and ‘Blueberry Hill’ in 1956 for Fats Domino, and ‘I Hear…