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Located in Boston, the ROCK Horns mix a four-piece horn section with the normal rock band tools to make a stew of R&B, funk and rock and roll. The group released two demonstration cassettes prior to the Square label released their self-titled debut record. The ROCK Horns transferred to Danger …

It’s hard to hear the music of Tommy Bolin rather than question what could’ve been if the exceptionally talented (and versatile) guitarist hadn’t succumbed to a senseless medication overdose at age 25 — just like his profession were taking off. Inside a documenting profession that lasted just many years, Bolin …

This late-’60s Denver group is perhaps most obviously as the starting place for guitarist Tommy Bolin, who was simply still in his teens if they recorded their first album in 1969. A fairly regular slab of bluesy, weighty rock, it produced the very best 50. Apart from Bolin’s prolonged hard …

Prior to learning to be a valued fixture from the Detroit home scene, singer/saxophonist/percussionist/maker Norma Jean Bell earned her stripes like a hired weapon for performers like Frank Zappa, Tommy Bolin, Narada Michael Walden, and Parliament. Within the middle-’90s, Bell became a detailed affiliate of Kenny Dixon Jr. (Moodymann) and …

Using the emergence of Cream as well as the Jimi Hendrix Experience through the later ’60s, the road was cleared for other hard-rockin’ “trios.” Probably, the best possible to emerge from the next American crop was the Adam Gang. Despite penning some of traditional rock and roll radio’s most long …

Through the entire years, rock music continues to be full of talented musicians whose lives were cut short because of drug-related deaths. Free of charge/Back Road Crawler guitarist Paul Kossoff was one particular casualty. Kossoff was created in London, Britain, on Sept 14, 1950, and in early stages studied classical …