By Steve Newton The music world is still in heavy mourning, trying to come to grips with the shocking news of Prince’s death today. But the pop legend from Minneapolis wasn’t […]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, DEC. 12, 1996 By Steve Newton They should have subtitled this one live (and bluesy) in the seventies, because over the course of this […]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, AUG. 30, 1990 By Steve Newton The influence of the blues on British supergroups is well documented. The Stones, Zeppelin, Cream—they all lapped up […]
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON STRAIGHT.COM, MARCH 10, 2013 By Steve Newton Thirty years ago today–on March 10, 1983–the Blasters played the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. Maybe you were there? The group–then […]
