James Brown & The Famous Flames – Try Me! (1959)
The air in the late 1950s music scene was thick with the sweet, polished sheen of vocal groups and the…
The air in the late 1950s music scene was thick with the sweet, polished sheen of vocal groups and the…
It is three o’clock in the morning. Not the polished, neon-drenched three o’clock of a late-night talk show, but the…
The sound hits you first, even through the thin membrane of an old vinyl transfer or the compressed signal of…
The studio air in 1957 must have been thick with a nervous, almost tangible energy. You could practically smell the…
It’s late evening, the air thick and warm, and you’re driving. The radio signal is fading in and out, the…
The air in the dimly lit lounge was thick, smelling faintly of spilled gin and expensive furniture polish. The year…
The year is 1958. The airwaves are a glorious, restless sonic soup—a mix of saccharine teen idols, the first hard…
The memory of late-night radio, filtered through the static and the heavy summer air, is often a more visceral experience…
The air in the room was thick, not with smoke or dust, but with a kind of electric, anticipatory dread.…
The needle drops in 1953, not with the pristine clarity of modern premium audio, but with the rich, unmistakable hiss…