Born Michael John Robillard in Woonsocket in 1948, he founded Roomful Of Blues with pianist Al Copley in Westerly in 1967.

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Neil Young is an unmatched lyrical visionary, but five songs go some way in reaching his heights - so much so that he should ...

As Goldmine celebrates two years of Eclectic Discoveries, we start off 2025 with another review of six album selections, ...

And when, finally, the vocal sample of Loaded (“we wanna be free/to do what we wanna do” etc) gets the party going after a ...

some of it pulsating and terrific (the gospel-cum-disco of Ready to Go Home), some out-of-tune nonsense (including Melancholy Man, which crowd goodwill lets the band sneak into the encore), but ...

In A Complete Unknown, James Mangold creates an atmosphere that feels so scuzzily authentic you want to linger within every ...

The beauty of “Sights” is that, while the track is best filed under “sad,” there’s also something strangely uplifting about it, both sonically and in spirit. Spartan acoustic guitar dominates, ...

As a side note, the first 45 rpm I ever took to heart was a song titled Juke Box Man ... melancholy of the music of Nick Drake. It’s beautiful, mind you, but you won’t play air guitar and ...

If you're after test track after test track to shiver your system's timbers, the Pirates Of The Caribbean score will help you ...

and fully immersed himself in the role of the man once hailed as the greatest songwriter of all time. This included singing and playing guitar live ... there was melancholy that this role, this ...