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THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW #3: MARIANNE FAITHFULL

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We are thrilled to hear the news that Marianne Faithfull has been released from the hospital and is recovering from Covid-19. In celebration, Billy Hough’s latest installment of Things You Should Know is 3 minutes all about Faithfull…

Carol Kaye started as a jazz solo guitarist, working the club scene of 1950s LA, when she was asked to work on some studio tracks for Sam Cooke. Though she loved the bebop jazz scene, Carol was a single mother with three kids and so to the studios she went, eventually switching to bass. She ultimately changed the very sound and role of that instrument in pop music as a member of what drummer Hal Blaine dubbed The Wrecking Crew (but which Carol has called The Clique). By any name, these were the session musicians who shaped some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, after which she went back to playing live gigs and working in movies and television, writing and teaching, which she is still doing in her 80s. Michael Shelley talks with the amazing Carol Kaye for PKM. Read more!

John Battles on PRIVATE SORROW: REMEMBERING PHIL MAY OF THE PRETTY THINGSA fitting tribute to an uncompromising Artist. Simadis summed up The Pretty Things' importance very well. I had the good fortune to see Phil May perform three times , and he never faltered as a charismatic frontman with remarkable conviction.The man kicked serious ass , in other words.
Maryjane Calyx on FRED WILLARD WAS FOREVER YOUNG: AND REALLY REALLY OLDThis is news to me, and very sad news; a real loss certainly. But wow! I sure as heck am thankful that Fred Willard was here and gave me so many reasons to laugh heartily over and again. My faves: Fernwood, Tap, History of White People... Thank you Fred! Love,
todd on JOHN DOE: X MARKS THE SPOTwhy are there never mentions of the Dickies when the subject of early SoCal punk arises?

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