On this week’s Rock’s Backpages home page, we celebrate the publication of Adele Bertei&
On this week’s Rock’s Backpages home page, we celebrate the publication of Adele Bertei’s new Why Labelle Matters by featuring archive interviews with the trailblazing funk-soul trio, plus a review of The Poet II, the newly-reissued 1984 Bobby Womack classic that boasts three spine-tingling duets with Patti L. We also bid farewell to Sally Grossman (1939-2021), the “lady in red” on the cover of Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home…Featured RBP writer Paul Rambali visits Bertei’s hometown of Cleveland to report in 1978 on local movers ‘n’ shakers Devo and Pere Ubu. Paul also meets Randy Newman, the man who penned 'Burn On’ – that most ironic of hymns to Cleveland – and (in 1981) interviews August “Kid Creole” Darnell…… who just happens to be the subject of this week’s new audio interview, conducted in 2016 by Larry Jaffee, who asks the former Thomas Browder about his Off-Broadway musical Cherchez La Femme – and about New York City, ZE Records and, of course, the Coconuts. RBP subscribers can also immerse themselves in great new library pieces about:• Mick Taylor (1969)• Steel Mill @ Matrix (1970))• Larry Graham (1975)• Keith Levene (1983)• Italo-House (1989)• Run DMC (1993)• Millie Jackson (2004)… and (from 2012) Screaming Lord Sutch!Listen for Adele Bertei’s guest spot on the next RBP podcast… In her red dress, she dances the bluesRaces the dawn to bring us the news… -- source link
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