Holmes Brothers guitarist Wendell Holmes says that, to switch from gospel to blues, you just take out "Jesus" and put in "baby"

Since forming in New York City in 1979, the Holmes Brothers have specialized in blending the genres of blues and gospel.

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Susan Tedeschi, August 3, 2006 | Ear of Newt

I interviewed Susan Tedeschi for the second time when she was promoting her fourth album, Hope and Desire, and getting set to play a show at

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Three months after Cliff Burton's death Metallica's James Hetfield told me "You can't give up"

"Beware the Merciless Onslaught" were the words that came to me when James Hetfield opened the door of his Hyatt Regency hotel room.

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The Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood recalls some of his favourite album covers from the '70s

I interviewed Drive-By Truckers singer, songwriter, and guitarist Patterson Hood for the fourth time back in June of 2008.

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Mojo Nixon calls Debbie Gibson "a little chicken-hearted Yankee witch"

When Mojo Nixon calls I’m glued to the boob tube, soaking up the first news of the U.S.-led military strikes in southern Iraq.

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That time I asked Pepper Keenan if he'd wear a UFO t-shirt like fellow Down guitarist Kirk Windstein

I interviewed Down guitarist Pepper Keenan back in September of 2007, two days after the band released Down III: Over the Under.

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Banjo-playing bluesman Otis Taylor offers raw tales from the dark side of life on Truth Is Not Fiction

As a kid growing up in Denver, Colorado, in the '60s, bluesman Otis Taylor met a teenage guitarist by the name of Tommy Bolin.

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Steve Earle, July 31, 1996 | Ear of Newt

I've interviewed Steve Earle six times so far, because he's one of my all-time favourite songwriters. This was the third time, two years aft

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Guitar legend Buddy Guy strives to keep the blues alive

How many players can say that Jimi Hendrix once cancelled a gig to sit at their feet with a tape recorder?

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Newt's top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, July 31 to August 2

Screening at VIFF Centre on Saturday of Joel and Ethan Coen's crime-comedy Fargo, starring Frances McDormand as police chief Marge Gunderson.

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That time Randy Bachman told me how he once went looking for Stephen King, aka Richard Bachman

Hardcore fans of Stephen King are aware that he used the pen name Richard Bachman for a number of his early novels.

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That time I asked Rush's Geddy Lee if he was in awe of how Neil Peart carried on after tragedy

I've interviewed Geddy Lee a couple of times. This was the second time, when Rush was touring behind its Vapour Trails album.

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That time Blue Murder's John Sykes told me that Phil Lynott took him under his wing in Thin Lizzy

By Steve Newton I interviewed John Sykes back in May of 1989, one month after the release of the self-titled debut album by Blue Murder, the power trio he put together with bassist Tony Franklin and d...

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Flogging Molly's Dave King says that Irish music should be soul-searching and rabble-rousing

“All the world’s a stage,” according to Shakespeare and that live Rush album, but when Dave King was a lad all his living room was a stage.

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Newt's top 10 Vancouver concerts to check out in August of 2026

Anonymous Canadian math-rock duo Angine de Poitrine performs August 23-24 at the Pearl and August 25 at the Commodore.

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Annie Lennox struts her stuff as Eurythmics prove themselves pop masters in Vancouver

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON AUG. 1, 1986 By Steve Newton The Eurythmics show on Monday (July 28) opened with a big white zipper slowly parting a silver/grey curtain stretched across the Expo Theatre stage...

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Steve Morse transforms into a different kind of person at night

Steve Morse might not be one of the best-known guitarists around; he’s certainly not as familiar to the general public as Beck or Satriani.

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John Mayall likes the personality of music and the people who play it, as long as the reality is there

“This is a new chapter with this new band, and everybody’s pretty excited about it, so we’ll just see where it goes.”

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Five minutes on the phone with Rob Zombie talkin' Halloween II, torture porn, and whether it's better to be stabbed or shot to death

I interviewed rocker and horror director Rob Zombie for the third time in August of 2009, when he was promoting his new Halloween II movie.

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Eric Clapton ends his 1985 North American tour in Vancouver, Duck Dunn proclaims "GODDAMN!"

Eric drew appreciative hollers for his tender love ballad "Wonderful Tonight", then played "She's Waiting", the opening track of his new LP.

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Victoria's Blue Violets draw comparisons to Concrete Blonde's Johnette on self-titled debut

The opening song on the Blue Violets’ self-titled debut album brings to mind nothing as much as L.A. alt-rockers Concrete Blonde.

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Weed-lovin' reggae-pop trio Daniel Wesley moves to the next level with Sing + Dance

The popularity of the reggae-tinged pop ditty "Ooo Ohh" has propelled Daniel Wesley into the big leagues of Vancouver rock acts.

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That time Derek Trucks surprised me by saying that he'd never really played a Fender Strat

I did the third of my five interviews with Derek Trucks when he was touring behind the final Derek Trucks Band studio album, Already Free.

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Newt's top 10 things to do in Vancouver this weekend, July 24 to 26

Screening at the VIFF Centre on Friday of Michael Mann's 1995 crime-thriller Heat, about an L.A. detective on the trail of a career thief.

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Booker T. Jones, May 21, 2009 | Ear of Newt

I interviewed American organ legend Booker T. Jones for the first time when he was touring behind his Grammy-winning album Potato Hole. That

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That time 21-year-old "local nobody" Devin Townsend sent a letter to the paper I wrote for

I interviewed Devin Townsend for the second time back in 1993, shortly after he'd hooked up with Steve Vai for the Sex & Religion album.

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