Ed Ward appears in the following:
No Hits, No Problem: Captain Beefheart's Major Label Run
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
50 Years Of The Hollies
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
The Furniture Company That Sang The Blues
Monday, February 16, 2015
Producer Cosimo Matassa Always Believed In New Orleans
Friday, January 23, 2015
Bob Dylan's 'Basement Tapes' Formed A Legend
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
The Mysterious Case of Arthur Conley, Otis Redding's Protege
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
The Toil And The Oil That Fueled The Bakersfield Country Scene
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
The Story Of Little Feat's Fame, Destruction And Revival
Monday, September 01, 2014
Box Set Looks Back On Pioneering '5' Royales
Monday, August 18, 2014
A Label Paramount To Early Blues And Jazz
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
The Animals: The British Invasion That Wasn't
Thursday, May 01, 2014
The Soul Singer Who Never Quite Made It
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
When Memphis Made A Move On Nashville's Country Monopoly
Thursday, January 02, 2014
A Nostalgic — But Bumpy — Journey With The Beach Boys
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The Dawn Of Sun Records: 15 Hours Of Blues
Friday, September 06, 2013
Sam Phillips is famous for saying that if he could find a white boy with the authentic Negro sound and feel, he'd make a billion dollars. Seeing Phillips in his striped sport coat and tie in 1950, you might well wonder if he'd know that sound and feel if it ...
Fame Studios And The Road To Nashville Songwriting Glory
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Wallace Daniel Pennington grew up singing. His father played guitar and his mother played piano, and by the age of 9, the young man had a guitar of his own. The family attended church on Sunday and Wednesday each week, and to this day, Dan Penn says he remembers ...
Arctic Records: Drafting A Blueprint For The Philly Sound
Monday, June 10, 2013
Arctic Records opened for business late in 1964. The label was the brainchild of Jimmy Bishop, the program director of WDAS — at the time Philadelphia's No. 1 black radio station. If that sounds like a conflict of interest, you don't know much about the music business in Philadelphia back ...
Jerry Lee Lewis: Live, Singing As If Life Depended On It
Friday, May 17, 2013
It was April 4, 1964, and Jerry Lee Lewis had officially bottomed out. He hadn't charted a record in years, and now, on tour in England and Germany, he was getting paid so little that he couldn't afford to bring his own musicians. Instead, he was forced to use pickup ...
Johnny Cash's Columbia Catalog Out Now — As A 63-Disc Box Set
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
In 1955, John R. Cash was a sometime auto mechanic, sometime appliance salesman who liked to play the guitar and sing, mostly gospel songs. The "R" in his name didn't stand for anything — and, in fact, he'd been named J.R. at birth and had to come up with ...
The Moving Sidewalks: Where The British Invasion Met Texas Blues
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
There must be something in the water — or the beer — in Texas that caused the huge eruption of garage bands and psychedelic bands in the mid-1960s, because there sure were a lot of them, and their records on obscure labels have kept collectors busy for decades. Most of ...