Daddy's Play Little Thing

Defiance is a good look for the second act in a band’s career. After three Top 10 albums in less than half a decade, Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent stepped back from music to deal with bereavement and mental health issues. Many probably thought the duo were done, not least the men themselves. HEAVY JELLY, though, is a pie in the face to the doubters, with everything that made The Artists Formerly Known As Slaves a compelling prospect wholly reinvigorated.

WAITING FOR COLUMBUS: SUPER DELUXE EDITION is an 8-CD boxed set that includes a newly remastered version of the original double album on CD and three unreleased concerts. WAITING FOR COLUMBUS: SUPER DELUXE EDITION is the definitive edition of this classic. It includes unreleased live versions of songs that appeared on the original (“Rocket In My Pocket” and “Spanish Moon”), along with several that didn’t, like “Cold, Cold, Cold,” “Rock And Roll Doctor,” “Skin It Back” and a cover of Allen Toussaint’s “On Your Way Down.”

WAITING FOR COLUMBUS: SUPER DELUXE EDITION is an 8-CD boxed set that includes a newly remastered version of the original double album on CD and three unreleased concerts. WAITING FOR COLUMBUS: SUPER DELUXE EDITION is the definitive edition of this classic. It includes unreleased live versions of songs that appeared on the original (“Rocket In My Pocket” and “Spanish Moon”), along with several that didn’t, like “Cold, Cold, Cold,” “Rock And Roll Doctor,” “Skin It Back” and a cover of Allen Toussaint’s “On Your Way Down.”

Defiance is a good look for the second act in a band’s career. After three Top 10 albums in less than half a decade, Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent stepped back from music to deal with bereavement and mental health issues. Many probably thought the duo were done, not least the men themselves. HEAVY JELLY, though, is a pie in the face to the doubters, with everything that made The Artists Formerly Known As Slaves a compelling prospect wholly reinvigorated.

Little Feat, like any other good gumbo, is a rich, dark stew of influences. They'll stir in folk, rock, blues, country, gospel and a bit of funk. The secret spice in this strange concoction was originally the late Lowell George, a man of both prodigious talents and appetites. He oversaw their transformation from an off-kilter post-Frank Zappa hybrid group into a rollicking, rootsy delight before he was felled by a massive heart attack on June 29, 1979, at just 34 years old. Little Feat had already begun drifting away from him, turning a little more jazzy, but promptly broke up anyway.

Little Feat, like any other good gumbo, is a rich, dark stew of influences. They'll stir in folk, rock, blues, country, gospel and a bit of funk. The secret spice in this strange concoction was originally the late Lowell George, a man of both prodigious talents and appetites. He oversaw their transformation from an off-kilter post-Frank Zappa hybrid group into a rollicking, rootsy delight before he was felled by a massive heart attack on June 29, 1979, at just 34 years old. Little Feat had already begun drifting away from him, turning a little more jazzy, but promptly broke up anyway.

Of the great artists from the first era of rock & roll, few were as powerful and exciting as Little Richard, and no one bested his magnetism and flamboyance.

Of the great artists from the first era of rock & roll, few were as powerful and exciting as Little Richard, and no one bested his magnetism and flamboyance.