“In the music business, people think that if you’re different, it’s a marketing problem,” says Don Was, who’s in the sixth decade of a one-of-a-kind career: producer for superstars, bass player, Blue Note Records president, and co-founder of the eclectic band Was (Not Was). “Instead of being a problem, it’s …
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Abbey Road Studios will award British photographer David Bailey the Lifetime Achievement Award at their annual Music Photography Awards this week. The special one-off award recognizes Bailey’s contribution to music photography over the past six decades. Bailey is known for capturing artists like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, the Beatles, the …
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After Keith Richards‘ son Marlon let slip that the Rolling Stones are working on what he believes to be a follow-up to 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, that album’s producer, Andrew Watt, confirms he’s been back in the studio with the band. ”I’ve said it before, but it’s like working for Batman,” …
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As a teenage musician, Jon Batiste used to call himself “a new-age blues artist.” Now, many genre-jumps later, he’s taking a deeply enjoyable left turn towards roots music on his seventh studio album, Aug. 22’s Big Money — and reminding the world he’s always been a bluesman at heart. “I’m …
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The Rolling Stones’ reverence for blues and country is as well-established as Keith Richards’ penchant for scarves. But you may not immediately associate the band with zydeco, the French-sung, syncopated folk-dance music of Louisiana. Yet, according to Richards, they’re fans of that genre too. “We never just listened to the …
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A few months ago, Joel Savoy, the Louisiana Cajun musician and label owner, was at a local pressing plant looking over the cover art for a just-finished tribute album to zydeco legend Clifton Chenier. The record already had a high-end roster — from veterans Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle to …
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The Rolling Stones have been around so long that Marilyn Monroe was walking the earth, the Beatles were little known outside of their native Liverpool, and ZIP codes were a brand new concept when they played their first show in the summer of 1962. They’ve amassed a ton of history …
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Blondshell appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform her recent single, “T&A.” The musician, Sabrina Teitelbaum, showcased the mid-tempo number alongside her band, offering an impassioned performance infused with emotion. Teitelbaum dropped “T&A” in January as the first listen off her new LP,If You Asked for a Picture, out May …
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Two weeks after the Rolling Stones hosted Saturday Night Live in 1978, Lorne Michaels served as a character witness for Keith Richards as the guitarist battled a drug charge in Canada that could’ve put him in jail for life. While Richards’ drug trial in Canada is a well-known chapter in …
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This story was originally published in the April 17, 1980, issue ofRolling Stone. “God, I was beautiful.” Blonde hair in her face, Marianne Faithfull is hanging halfway off the bed in her New York hotel room so she can reach a blazer thrown over a chair. She fingers a huge …
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