Posts by Leslie Michele Derrough

When you have a chance to experience music in it’s most purest form, when all is quiet and the resonance of the harmonies and the words and a few strings are crystal clear, it can be pure bliss. A lot of music has gotten away from that but thankfully Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen still […]

“Jon, Trevor and myself have always wanted to play together, to play Yes music, and just sort of finally got round to doing it. And I think that’s been helped in this very bizarre way by the sad tragic death of Chris Squire, because something that hit us all was our own mortality, I suppose, […]

One of the things British singer-songwriter David Gray loves most about the legendary Nina Simone is, “The way she weaves magic into things.” It is a feat many attempt yet so few attain, and that is not lost on Gray, who released a Best Of album in October. Gray, who gained attention in 2000 following […]

It took a couple of years but Blackberry Smoke has risen to the top of the heap, especially when it comes to rock & roll with a southern heartbeat. They have become the golden child, the chosen one to lead where the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd built a path. And their new album, Like […]

When you’re young and you feel like you don’t belong, life can look very different from the football player on one side of you or the gamer on the other side. So you dream more than most and that bright shining talent that might have been hidden away for years is unleashed to it’s glorious […]

“I jumped in the van and managed to somehow lick his chest,” remembered Grace Potter in a 2012 interview with Glide about her first encounter with Iggy Pop. “Don’t ask me how it happened but I was just an excitable young thing, just basically a screaming fan.” Iggy Pop can do that to people. The […]

Let’s get this out of the way first – Timothy B. Schmit doesn’t know what the future holds for the Eagles following the passing of founding member Glenn Frey in January. Now we can move on to other things, like Schmit’s new solo album, Leap Of Faith, released last month. A labor of love for […]

I wonder if anyone ever told Keith Urban that he is considered a country artist? Because the show he put on for the sold out crowd in New Orleans was definitely more rock than country & western. Curious as to how the other side of the music world spends a concert night, I slid into […]

You know his name, you know his music, you know of his reputation. So when it was announced that Rick Wakeman, the legendary keyboard player for Yes, was reuniting with his former bandmates, singer Jon Anderson and guitarist Trevor Rabin, to form ARW and tour, it was like the mothership had breached the mountains in […]

Korn rolled into Biloxi last Sunday bringing with them Breaking Benjamin, Motionless In White and Silver Snakes for the 19th annual CPR Fest and fans were more than ready to rock out with them. California band Silver Snakes had the hardest duty of the night: opening the festival and attempting to rile up the crowd for […]

Doyle Bramhall II has never really been your average Joe musician. He cut his teeth on blues, added rock, funk, R&B and Jazz intonations into his playing as he evolved from the kid at not only his legendary father’s feet but family friends Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan as well. He took a love for […]

Andy Timmons has built his reputation into a well-respected cerebral guitar instrumentalist. He’s been on the G4 ticket with Joe Satriani and Paul Gilbert, and toured with former Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth; all three men known for their technical performances. You’ve got to be pretty darn good to hang with those guys onstage and […]

When you go see Gary Clark Jr, the first person you notice is the guitar player himself. But the second musician that catches your attention is drummer Johnny Radelat. He hits hard, he keeps a strict rhythm and he is the tracks on which Clark’s train keeps rolling. But there is not a lot of […]

“I’m more the nuts and bolts guy,” guitar player Billy Duffy once told Glide in 2012 about The Cult. “I’m like the engine room guy. I’m down there with the engine making sure everything is running and doing the maintenance.” Which leaves singer Ian Astbury to do the emoting, the zen-vibing and the connecting with the souls […]

 Julian Lennon may have been born into a house of music but his branches of interest spread much further out. In fact, his passions for photography and philanthropy are so deep in his soul that they are what fuel his fires today. So much so, that when creativity is sparking he charges full-speed ahead. “Sometimes […]

In the mid-1970’s, I was a kid growing up in small town America when a band called KISS started releasing albums. Looking like demons from your worst nightmares, scaring the souls of middle-class parents who tried to shield the eyes and ears of their offspring but ultimately ended up losing the battle. I had the […]

“I feel fantastic, in case you were wondering,” Gary Clark Jr said with a smile midway through his electrifying set at the Civic in New Orleans on September 12th. From the first notes of “Bright Lights” to the last explosive vibrations of “Numb,” the Austin, Texas, bluesman took the packed in like sardines crowd through […]

The fans have been waiting for this. They’ve been waiting for Myles Kennedy to finish touring with Slash and for Mark Tremonti to turn his attention away from his solo band. They have been waiting for Alter Bridge. On October 7th, the band – also featuring drummer Scott Phillips and bass player Brian Marshall – […]

Get ready everybody – the rockabilly hellraiser is back in town! Guitar player Jesse Dayton is releasing his latest record, The Revealer, this week and it’s a honky-tonking jitterbug of energy, fun times and southern witticisms. Not one to have his finger in only one home-cooked pie, Dayton plays most of the instruments himself, infusing […]

You can take the name away from the man but you can’t take the music out of the man. Out of the ashes of a court battle over who IS Queensryche, Geoff Tate is now Operation: Mindcrime, a band that continues his tradition of metal music with fiery textures, featuring protagonists who grapple with soul-wrenching […]