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Four years after the release of her intimate 2017 CD Life Love Flesh Blood which reached number 2 in Ireland, number 5 in the UK and also scored a Silver record, the charming, intelligent and beautiful Irish rockabilly musician and singer-songwriter Imelda May is back with 11 Past the Hour, her forthcoming sixth studio album being released in April 2021.
I had the chance to interview the lady – and what an insightful conversation about music, art and poetry has it been.
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Ronnie Wood
June 1, 1947
The world of rock and roll has seen its fair share of rogues and renegades, and few are more lovable than Ronnie Wood. In over fifty years, he has seen it all and done it all, be it with a guitar hero, as a guitar hero, a writer, musician, artist, and as a member of the World’s Greatest Rock And Roll Band.
Born into a family of water gypsies, Ronnie’s was the first generation to be born on dry land. As the younger brother of musicians and graphic artists Art and Ted, the latter having played with Alexis Korner, Carlo Little, and as a member of The Artwoods, Ronnie inevitably followed in his brothers’ footsteps as a musician. Beginning his career in The Birds, the band mixed old R&B songs with originals, many being penned partly or fully by Ronnie. After The Birds ended, he’d move onto various other groups like freakbeat outfit The Creation and Santa Barbara Machine Head, an electric blues group featuring former Bands Bandmate Kim Gardner as well as future Deep Purple keyboardist Jon Lord. Both proved similarly short lived, but Ronnie would catch his first big break soon enough.
In 1967, Jeff Beck was fresh out of The Yardbirds and preparing to form his own group. It would be Ronnie and a young Rod Stewart with whom Jeff would form the core group. Initially on rhythm guitar, a revolving door of bassists would soon end with Ronnie switching over. As it turns out, Ronnie ended up being quite a good bassist, ably serving a rhythm guitarist’s role in complimenting Jeff’s guitar explorations while locking in with the drummer, be it with Aynsley Dunbar, Mickey Waller, or Tony Newman. Round out the band with the great Nicky Hopkins on keys, and with that, Jeff Beck’s new group was complete. And Jeff Beck’s group’s name? The Jeff Beck Group. Well, nobody can say the name is misleading.
With the blues that the band members grew up on, amped up in aggression and power and armed with Jeff’s innovative guitar work, Truth and Beck-Ola possess a sound so rarely if ever heard before they came out and which many have built on since. It’s pure, unadulterated hard rock, even metallic at times, especially for 1968, with pure sensuality and potency. It’s far out and cosmic without being hippy dippy, and still holds up nicely all these years later. Though the band was named for Jeff, the band truly felt like a band, one with tremendous talent and chemistry.
Of course, with all the talent in that band, perhaps the butting of heads was inevitabl
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