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Record Store Day 2015 Releases
Record Store Day, around since 2007, is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store-staff, customers, and the artists-to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record...
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Classic Rock Almanac March 31, 2015
TRIVIA Today’s Question: AC/DC lead guitarist Angus Young celebrates his 60th birthday today. When a 1973 album called Tales of Old Grand Daddy was re-issued last year, it finally came to light that...
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21 Wildly Different Songs All Named ‘Freedom’
By Shannon Carlin Nicki Minaj, Jimi Hendrix and Blues Traveler have all released a song called “Freedom,” but, like the music they each play, their take on the word is very, very different. Almost as...
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The Daily Cut: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “The Wind Cries Mary”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: “The Wind Cries Mary” ALBUM: Are You Experienced? YEAR: 1967 WRITER: Jimi Hendrix The Experience’s third single in Britain, where it reached number-six, it was the B-side...
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The Daily Cut: The Spencer Davis Group “I’m a Man”
The Spencer Davis Group: “I’m a Man” ALBUM: I’m a Man YEAR: 1967 WRITERS: Steve Winwood and Jimmy Miller Peaked at number-10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Big changes were afoot in London as 1966 turned...
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The Daily Cut: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Fire”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: “Fire” ALBUM: Are You Experienced? YEAR: 1967 WRITER: Jimi Hendrix Never released as a single in the U.S., the song received lots of airplay as an album track on FM rock...
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Classic Rock Almanac September 21, 2015
TRIVIA Today’s Question: Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder turns 68 years old today (Monday). What is the first part of the title of Felder’s 2008 autobiography, which ends with My Life in the Eagles...
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Classic Rock Almanac October 1, 2015
TRIVIA Today’s Question: 45 years ago today (October 1st), Jimi Hendrix was buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, Washington. Who inducted Jimi Hendrix into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in...
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The Daily Cut: The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Castles Made of Sand”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: “Castles Made of Sand” ALBUM: Axis: Bold As Love YEAR: 1967 WRITER: Jimi Hendrix Never released as a single, but a staple of rock and classic rock radio. The Jimi...
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Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde & More Join The 2016 Experience Hendrix Tour
by Jeff Cornell Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde, Dweezil Zappa, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and more will take part in the 2016 Experience Hendrix tour. The 27-date U.S. trek will kick off in Hollywood,...
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The 27 Club, Musicians Who Died At 27 Years-Old
It's kind of weird, but there are quite a few rockers who passed away at the age of 27.
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The Daily Cut: Jimi Hendrix “Freedom”
Jimi Hendrix: “Freedom” ALBUM: Cry of Love YEAR: 1971 WRITER: Jimi Hendrix Peaked at number-59 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Freedom” was the only single from the album that Jimi Hendrix was recording...
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Classic Rock Almanac September 18, 2016
ANNIVERSARIES 2005-Founders Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young — as well as board member Dave Matthews — headline Farm Aid 2005 at the TweeterCenter in Tinley Park, Illinois. The 20th...
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Classic Rock Almanac October 1, 2016
ANNIVERSARIES 2009-Following one out-of-town warm-up gig, the original lineup of Mott the Hoople — reunited for the first time in more than 35 years — begins a run of reunion shows at London’s...
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Classic Rock Almanac November 27, 2016
ANNIVERSARIES 2007-John Mellencamp announces to the crowd at his show in Erie, Pennsylvania, “I got a phone call today. I found out I’m in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.” 2000-The Who wrap up a U-K...
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Pre-Experience Era Hendrix Released
When he was known as Jimmy James, well before The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he played for Curtis Knight and the Lovelights. Now, some of those early shows has been released. Recorded in Hackensack N.J....
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Unreleased Jimi Hendrix 1969 Concert Film Could be Coming to a Theater Near You
By Robyn Collins A previously unreleased and still untitled Jimi Hendrix 1969 concert movie might finally see the light of day as a wide scale release. A California appeals court has determined that...
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Hendrix Wrote Song At Brad Pitt’s House
An old hippie told Brad Pitt that he used to party with Jimi Hendrix at the house where Pitt now lives. In fact he said that Jimi even wrote a song in the grotto by the waterfall.
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Jimi Hendrix’s Monterey Pop Fest Strat Could Sell for How Much?
By Robyn Collins Jimi Hendrix literally lit the night on fire at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival when he set his guitar aflame. The guitar slayer had a second axe that survived the show and is about to...
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