Blood Sweat And Tears always looked like a small crowd waiting for a speech. Who were all these people? What did they all do? How could you need that many band members? The original line-up had eight members – Al Kooper, Jim Fielder, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Dick Halligan, Steve Katz and Bobby Colomby. Al Kooper was the band leader having been […]
I’ve written about Annette Peacock before and whenever I hear her music I become transfixed by the pure scope of her vision. She can be sexy and avant-garde, sensitive and scary, catchy and experimental, she’s sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties and futuristic, a timeless wonder, she is Jazz, Blues, Electronic, Rap, Pop, Progressive, Singer/Songwriter, Poet, Funk, Rock, Soul – everything […]
The elusive Annette Peacock from her 2006 release 31.31 with unsettling video by Dale Hoyt that isn’t quite working – or is it?. If this is the first time you have heard her, it misrepresents her completely and totally both visually and musically. Of course it is her being her, but there’s different Annette Peacock styles […]