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Bobby Keys' driving, raw tour de force saxophone solo in the middle of the Rolling Stones' 1971 hit "Brown Sugar" will still raise the little hairs on your neck decades later.
It says a lot about guitarist Johnny Winter that blues great Muddy Waters sang his praises. The first time Waters heard him play live, he was blown away by Winter's blindingly fast thumb-picked electric slide work. "He plays eight notes to my one!" Waters reportedly exclaimed.
Pete Seeger, who passed away on Jan. 27 at age 94 in New York, accomplished the nearly unimaginable. He showed that one man, armed only with a banjo, a tenor singing voice and the courage of his convictions, not only could leave an indelible stamp upon popular music, but also challenge injustice…
Kris Kristofferson's career as a singer-songwriter spans nearly 50 years, and his career as an actor nearly that, so it saddened me a little to learn that he's struggling just a bit with memory loss.