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New Music for Old People: My Musical Foundations, Part Three - Comparatively ...
The Morton Report
By Al Kooper, Columnist First, I just wanna say if you're as far from religious or spiritual as can be imagined, there is still something here for you if you enjoy '70s soul music. Musically, in that genre, this is as good as it gets and if you don't ...


 
New Music for Old People: Gladys Knight, Ray Charles, Rita Coolidge, Scanners ...
The Morton Report
By Al Kooper, Columnist This column is like the title says - its intention is to fill the gap for those of us who were satiated musically in the '60s and then searched desperately as we aged for music we could relate to and get the same buzz from ...


 
New Music for Old People: My Musical Foundations, Part Two - Rockabilly
The Morton Report
By Al Kooper, Columnist This music started for me in the mid-'50s when I was 12 years old with a song I heard on the radio. I visualized the singer to be a middle-aged black man wearing a pork pie hat, a cigarette dangling from his lips as he sat ...


 
The simple lessons of a quiet highway
Austin Herald
Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hard-core, intelligent research according to Al Kooper while Mello and Fred sleep and bark. Mello and Fred went with Jeanne for the weekend so they could do some running in the woods behind the Poppe farm.


 
No. 14: Lynyrd Skynyrd, 'Sweet Home Alabama' – Top 100 Classic Rock Songs
Ultimate Classic Rock
Released in the summer of 1974, 'Second Helping,' produced by the legendary Al Kooper, was the band's sophomore effort, and it's lead off track would cement the band's status as American rock royalty. Skynyrd were perfect for the times they lived in.

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Cincinnati CityBeat
This Date in Music History: May 17
Cincinnati CityBeat
Lore has it that the boos were from those upset Dylan was playing electric, though his organist Al Kooper said it was because the sound sucked. Still, Dylan would deal with such polarized reactions for the next year or so as he continued to rock ...

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The Season of “Season of the Witch”
New Yorker (blog)
Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, and Stephen Stills included an eleven-minute version on the “Super Sessions” album. Hole performed it on “MTV Unplugged.” “Sunshine Superman,” the album on which “Season of the Witch” appeared, is often described as an ...