Elmore Magazine :: April/May 2008

Letter from the Publisher: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." One woman's guess why southern rock sounds nothing like Dion and the Belmonts

Influences: Two bassists and their childhood friends formed ground-breaking bands. Jack Casady and Flea talk about their beginnings and their current favorite things

Get to Know 20: Southern Songs You Should Know

F E A T U R E S

SOUTHERN ROCK: The British Invasion brought the blues back to the US, and a small Canadian Invasion brought us southern rock. Born to Ronnie Hawkins, raised by Bob Dylan, the Band spawned a family which includes the Allman Brothers and Kid Rock. Rob Johnson explains how it all went down

TV AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL TV started with few channels and a lot of music. Now we have zillions of channels but where’s the music? In commercials and closing scenes, that’s where. Media maven Stan Beinstein puts down the remote

D E P A R T M E N T S

Letter from the Publisher: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." One woman's guess why southern rock sounds nothing like Dion and the Belmonts

Influences: Two bassists and their childhood friends formed ground-breaking bands. Jack Casady and Flea talk about their beginnings and their current favorite things

Letter from the Publisher: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.” One woman’s guess why southern rock sounds nothing like Dion and the Belmonts

Influences: Two bassists and their childhood friends formed ground-breaking bands. Jack Casady and Flea talk about their beginnings and their current favorite things

Kickin’ in Your Stall: Carl Gustafson remembers friends passed, bullets dodged (or not) and why music careers can be very brief—for a whole variety of reasons. Insurance underwriters, take note

On The Record: The North Mississippi Allstars go back home to Dad Jim Dickinson and neighbor Jim Mathus, but pack their hard rock baggage with them; Catherine Russell sings standards superbly, Webb Wilder sings rock and roll; John Mayall and Bill Lupkin celebrate the blues

Collecting: Four guys from Canada and one from Arkansas changed American roots music forever. Collecting the one-and-only the Band

Also Appearing: The Marshall Tucker Band on DVD; Walk Hard, Honeydripper and other first-run music moves, a DVD of Waylon Jennings and one each of his polar opposites, Elton John and Donovan; plus Foreigner, books, and a couple surprises

Re.Issues: Beck’s Odelay in a deluxe package; Led Zep, the Staple Singers, Dizzy Gillespie and Michael Jackson—now there’s a mix