Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features guitarist Rusty Anderson.
Rusty Anderson has been consistently creating music with Paul McCartney for the past 22 years. He’s not only the lead guitarist...
Rusty Anderson has been consistently creating music with Paul McCartney for the past 22 years. He’s not only the lead guitarist...
- 10/11/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
On June 23rd, 1974, 21-year-old jazz-fusion guitarist Daryl Stuermer was watching the short-lived talk show Speakeasy when the guests for the evening included Beach Boys singer Mike Love, English guitarist John McLaughlin, jazz flutist Charles Lloyd and Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel. Stuermer had never heard of Genesis and the brief video segment showing their performance of “Supper’s Ready” did little to win him over. “Peter was wearing a flower on his head,” says Stuermer. “When I saw that I thought, ‘Oh, that’s not my kind of thing. This is ridiculous.
- 1/29/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Nov 15, 2018
Roy Clark was an ambassador for country music, but his fingers fiddled in many genres.
Roy Clark could make music out of anything with strings. Guitars, banjoes, mandolins and fiddles, which he could play masterpiece classics on in a whim, were easy pickings for him. He made them scream Hee Haw, which was the name of the show he is best known for. The musical pioneer was the first country artist to play at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and one of the first American artists to perform in the Soviet Union. Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry member Clark died Thursday at his home in Tulsa, Okla., of complications from pneumonia at the age of 85, according to Variety. .
CBS cancelled Hee Haw after two years, from 1969 to 1971, but Clark and Owens were familiar faces in syndication from 1971 to 1992. Clark was born in Meherrin,...
Roy Clark was an ambassador for country music, but his fingers fiddled in many genres.
Roy Clark could make music out of anything with strings. Guitars, banjoes, mandolins and fiddles, which he could play masterpiece classics on in a whim, were easy pickings for him. He made them scream Hee Haw, which was the name of the show he is best known for. The musical pioneer was the first country artist to play at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and one of the first American artists to perform in the Soviet Union. Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry member Clark died Thursday at his home in Tulsa, Okla., of complications from pneumonia at the age of 85, according to Variety. .
CBS cancelled Hee Haw after two years, from 1969 to 1971, but Clark and Owens were familiar faces in syndication from 1971 to 1992. Clark was born in Meherrin,...
- 11/16/2018
- Den of Geek
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