Posts tagged with "Van Halen"
GRACE PETTIS “I TAKE CARE OF ME NOW” Video & Web-Exclusive Interview
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Musician: GRACE PETTIS
Video Premiere: “I TAKE CARE OF ME NOW”
DOWN TO THE LETTER
WITH AMERICANA’S WORKING WOMAN GRACE PETTIS
by Rodeo Marie Hanson
An American juvenile cinéma vérité, reminiscent of 1985’s The Breakfast Club, unfolds within every school’s granite and brick corridors, monochromatic carpeted classrooms and institutionalized cafeterias. In this microcosm,...
ARTIMUS PYLE BAND & DOLLY PARTON “FREE BIRD” Video – with Web-Exclusive Interview
ARTIMUS PYLE BAND & DOLLY PARTON “Free Bird” Video – with Web-Exclusive Interview
Musician: ARTIMUS PYLE BAND
Video Feature: DOLLY PARTON “FREE BIRD”
STREET SURVIVOR ARTIMUS PYLE HONORS THE MUSIC OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD WITH ANTHEMS
High above the jet-black, inky expanse of the ether’s murky cloud bank, the angel of darkness cuts through thick velvet air with its foreboding presence. Its whispers, pregnant with ominous locution,...
Video & Web Exclusive Interview MITCH GALLAGHER
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Musician: MITCH GALLAGHER
Album:Foundation
Mitch Gallagher is a guitarist and composer. The tone on his new album Foundationis exceptional—a thing of beauty. But this is not simply another guitar album. He has combined guitars and piano with an amazing rhythm section and stellar horns.
Gallagher was introduced to music as a child by his mother—who was herself a child recording artist with her siblings,...
Van Halen
“WORKING WITH A ROCK GROUP IS ALWAYS A challenge,” says photographer Norman Seeff, remembering his 1979 shoot for the cover of Van Halen’s third album, Women and Children First. “There are times when a group comes in for a session and I perceive there is tension among the members.” One sure way to defuse that tension, he says, was to ask the musicians to bring their instruments—and sure enough, Eddie Van Halen was soon...