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View the full archive of FreeSpin Radio Eric Clapton By the time Eric Clapton launched his solo career with the release of his self-titled debut album in mid-1970, he was long established as one of the world’s major rock stars due to his group affiliations - the Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Faith - affiliations that had demonstrated his claim to being the best rock guitarist of his generation. That it took Clapton so long to go out on his own, however, was evidence of a degree of reticence unusual for one of his sta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jackson Browne In many ways, Jackson Browne was the quintessential sensitive Californian singer/songwriter of the early ‘70s. Only Joni Mitchell and James Taylor ranked alongside him in terms of influence, but neither artist tapped into the post-’60s zeitgeist like Browne. While the majority of his classic ‘70s work was unflinchingly personal, it nevertheless provided a touchstone for a generation of maturing baby boomers coming to terms with adulthood. Not only did his introspective, literate lyrics stri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young The musical partnership of David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, with and without Neil Young, was not only one of the most successful touring and recording acts of the late ‘60s, ‘70s, and early ‘80s - with the colorful, contrasting nature of the members’ characters and their connection to the political and cultural upheavals of the time - it was the only American-based band to approach the overall societal impact of the Beatles. The group was a second marriage for all the participants ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Cray Tin-eared critics have frequently damned him as a yuppie blues wanna-be whose slickly soulful offerings bear scant resemblance to the real down-home item. In reality, Robert Cray is one of a precious few active blues artists with the talent and vision to successfully usher the idiom into the future without resorting either to slavish imitation or simply playing rock while passing it off as blues. Just as importantly, his immensely popular records helped immeasurably to jump-start the contem ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cream Although Cream was only together for a little more than two years, their influence was immense, both during their late-’60s peak and in the years following their breakup. Cream was the first top group to truly exploit the power-trio format, in the process laying the foundation for much blues-rock and hard rock of the 1960s and 1970s. It was with Cream, too, that guitarist Eric Clapton truly became Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harry Chapin Harry Chapin’s career as a popular singer/songwriter was cut short by an auto accident in 1981, yet he left behind a series of recordings that his fans continue to treasure decades after his death. Chapin was never a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter. Critics accused him of over-sentimentalizing his subjects and attaching heavy-handed morals to his socially aware story-songs; the heavily orchestrated arrangements that accompanied many of his songs didn’t help his case with the critics ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Cocker After starting out as an unsuccessful pop singer (working under the name Vance Arnold), Joe Cocker found his niche singing rock and soul in the pubs of England with his superb backing group, the Grease Band. He hit number one in the U.K. in November 1968 with his version of the Beatles’ “A Little Help From My Friends.” His career really took off after he sang that song at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chuck Berry Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers. Quite simply, without him, there would be no Beatles, Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, nor a myriad others. There would be no standard “Chuck Berry guitar intro,” the instrument’s clarion call to get the joint rocking’ in any s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Charles Ray Charles was the musician most responsible for developing soul music. Singers like Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson also did a great deal to pioneer the form, but Charles did even more to devise a new form of black pop by merging ‘50s R&B with gospel-powered vocals, adding plenty of flavor from contemporary jazz, blues and (in the ‘60s) country. Then there was his singing; his style was among the most emotional and easily identifiable of any 20th-century performer, up there with the likes of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Commander Cody Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen were equally adept at stripped-down basic rock & roll, R&B, and gritty country-rock. Commander Cody’s country-rock rocked harder than the Eagles or Poco - essentially, the group was a bar band. Much like English pub rock bands like Brinsley Schwarz and Ducks Deluxe, Commander Cody resisted the overblown and bombastic trends of the early-’70s rock, preferring a basic, no-frills approach. Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen never had the impact ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Collins Phil Collins’ ascent to the status of the most successful pop and adult-contemporary singers of the ‘80s and beyond was probably as much of a surprise to him as it was to many others. Balding and diminutive, Collins was almost 30-years old when his first solo single, “In the Air Tonight,” became a number two hit in his native U.K. (the song was a Top 20 hit in the U.S.). Between 1984 and 1990, Col Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow’s fresh, updated spin on classic roots rock made her one of the most popular mainstream rockers of the ‘90s. Her albums were loose and eclectic on the surface, yet were generally tied together by polished, professional songcraft. Crow’s sunny, good-time rockers and world-weary ballads were radio staples for much of the ‘90s, and she was a perennial favorite at Grammy time. Although her songwriting style was firmly anchored to the rock tradition, she wasn’t a slave to it - her fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman helped restore singer/songwriters to the spotlight in the ‘80s. The multi-platinum success of Chapman’s eponymous 1988 debut was unexpected, and it had lasting impact. Although Chapman was working from the same confessional singer/songwriter foundation that had been popularized in the ‘70s, her songs were fresh and powerful, driven by simple melodies and affecting lyrics. At the time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roy Buchanan Roy Buchanan has long been considered one of the finest, yet criminally overlooked guitarists of the blues rock genre whose lyrical leads and use of harmonics would later influence such guitar greats as Jeff Beck, his one-time student Robbie Robertson, and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons. His father was both a farmer and a Pentecostal preacher, which would bring the youngster his first exposure to gospel m Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kim Carnes Kim Carnes’ distinctively raspy, throaty voice graced one of the biggest hits of the ‘80s, the Grammy-winning smash “Bette Davis Eyes,” which spent nine weeks on the top of the Billboard charts in 1981. During the ‘60s Carnes began writing songs for other artists while performing in local clubs and as a session vocalist. In 1966, she joined the popular folk group the New Christy Minstrels for a ti Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cars Blondie may have had a string of number one hits and Talking Heads may have won the hearts of the critics, but the Cars were the most successful American new wave band to emerge in the late ‘70s. With their sleek, mechanical pop/rock, the band racked up a string of platinum albums and Top 40 singles that made them one of the most popular American rock & roll bands of the late ‘70s and early ‘8 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elvis Costello Declan McManus’ father was a jazz bandleader, and he was often given copies of the popular records of the day, which he passed on to his son. It was these recordings by the Beatles, the Kinks, the Who, and the stars of Motown that instilled in McManus a love of rock and roll and laid the foundation for his own musical style. It was his manager, Jake Riviera, who gave McManus the idea to change his Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Johnny Cash As an emeritus member of both the Country Music and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, winner of the 1991 Grammy Legend Award, and with more than a hundred and fifty charted hits to his credit, Johnny Cash is the Grand Old Man of Nashville. The son of an Arkansas sharecropper, Cash grew up dirt-poor. He went on stints in the Army and as an appliance salesman before making it big. In 1955, he signed with Sam Phillips’ Sun Records, joining Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins (the foursome ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Counting Crows With their angst-filled hybrid of Van Morrison, the Band, and R.E.M., Counting Crows became an overnight sensation in 1994. Only a year earlier, the band was a group of unknown musicians, filling in for the absent Van Morrison at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony; they were introduced by an enthusiastic Robbie Robertson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Cotton At his high-energy 1970s peak as a bandleader, James Cotton was a bouncy, sweaty, whirling dervish of a bluesman, roaring his vocals and all but sucking the reeds right out of his defenseless little harmonicas with his prodigious lungpower. Due to throat problems, Cotton’s vocals are no longer what they used to be, but he remains a masterful instrumentalist. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website