By Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor Emmylou Harris is an American treasure. Her full tally of contributions to American music is “real, and spectacular,” to quote a phrase. In love with music since childhood, it seemed like destiny she would make that path her home throughout life. Her interest led her into the folk […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor The band behind this week’s ‘Essential’ album, partially defined the path of early 80s guitar-based music, in an era where synthesizers had taken over. R.E.M. had their own ideas about where music in the new decade should be headed. Without taking one thing away from their entire, glorious […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor The Beatles story is a legend, a living legend, a legend that will live after lots of other living legends have died. Umm, oh wait, that's the Rutles. The Beatles were a pop group from Liverpool, England. Formed in the early 1960s, they would eventually take over the […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor To have your debut album not only garner vast critical acclaim, but to also connect with a huge audience is truly something special. The 1989 debut from Tracy Chapman not only brought in rave reviews, three Grammy wins, and four other nominations, but hit #1 in nine countries, […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor Graham Parker has lived a life of music. From his teenage years, following a beat group dream, and on through to gracing the world stage with his own brand of rock and roll, which he merged with soul, folk, and a smart pop sensibility. Parker hit the ground […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor One thing for certain about Canadian rock music, it's all over the map! And that's a good thing! If there is a 'Canadian sound,' it would have to slot somewhere in between Neil Young, Rush, Nick Gilder, the Guess Who, Voivod, Nash The Slash, Thundermug, and, well, you […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor New York. London. Paris, and of course, Munich. Everybody, go on now, talk about Pop Music! What is Pop Music? Certainly, one would think pop, being short for popular…however, so much amazing pop music had nothing to do with popularity contests. It was meant to define music in […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor No lying, no pretense, no hype sheet, just the facts! The Pretenders self-titled debut album stands as one of the greatest, most fully formed debut's in rock and roll! Way back upon its release in 1980, every note, every guitar chord, and every word rang true, and all […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor Straight outta Columbus, Ohio, Twenty One Pilots have certainly made, and maintained, a name for themselves over the past fifteen years or so. After entering the game with a couple of independently released albums, the duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun got snapped up by a Warner […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor Robert Plant Looks Back While Moving Forward On 1988's 'Now And Zen' Norah Jones is not your average, everyday performer. People picked up on that fact from the start, as her 2002 debut album, 'Come Away with Me,' proved in numbers. Born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar, in 1979, […]
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