Posts by Leslie Michele Derrough

Welcome to my new column, On The Map, where I (Leslie Michelle Derrough) will highlight famous and less well-known musical sites that you can visit for Glide. We’re starting off with one of the finest music museums in the country: The Big House in Macon, Georgia, home of all things Allman Brothers. Let’s explore! THE […]

Jim Gordon’s name might not be instantly recognizable, but I bet “Layla” is. You know that infamous girl from the first chord of Derek & The Dominos’ iconic song. And in Drugs & Demons: The Tragic Journey Of Jim Gordon, Joel Selvin’s new biography on the drummer so many musicians depended on, you can read […]

Summer is coming early to the Deep South and what better way to welcome it in than with some smoking hot sets by ZZ Top, Black Stone Cherry and headliners Lynyrd Skynyrd on Thursday, April 04, 2024. Out on what they’ve dubbed the Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour, this is a killer ticket and the […]

With a title like Screamin’ At The Sky, you knew this was going to be a rocking album. With sonics exploding and lyrics straight on, Black Stone Cherry has made their eighth studio record a memorable one. They have outdone themselves yet again by focusing on the lyrics and giving them an adrenaline shot with […]

“I love playing drums. I have eight children and grandchildren and we all play drums together. We get pretty tribal and that makes my life happy,” Artimus Pyle says with a laugh. Considering that his life has been filled with enough drama that would break any human being’s spirit, the Kentucky-born drummer is still standing […]

Back in the 1960s, Jenny Boyd and her sister Pattie were top models in Britain, being courted by rock stars and living a jet-set life. Serenaded by Donovan on his 1968 Hurdy Gurdy Man album with the Top 5 UK single “Jennifer Juniper” and marriage to drummer Mick Fleetwood, the middle Boyd daughter ended up […]

Andy Summers is a Renaissance Man; which means he can do a lot of things very, very well. He is a guitar player with an extensive catalog of recordings – with his former band The Police, as a solo artist and with various other musicians (such as Robert Fripp, Carly Simon and Joan Armatrading). He […]

Gov’t Mule loves to surprise us. I mean, here is one of the preeminent southern blues rock bands and they gave us a big dose of Pink Floyd. On their debut album in 1995, they pulled out an obscure quiet blues scratch by Son House. And they have roared through AC/DC and Zeppelin songs for […]

Take a renowned guitar player, give him some “extra” free time, and see what finally happens after thirty years. Trevor Rabin, guitarist for Yes from 1983 – 1995, culled together some ideas for songs he’d had lying around over the years and created one heck of a solo album that not only includes his fluidity […]

“We have coffee so it’s all good,” Duane Betts says, slightly laughing off the fact that his tour bus is broken down on the side of the road somewhere past Knoxville, Tennessee. “It’s these buses. Parts like the belt, they come off so we’re waiting on a new belt to be delivered or something like […]

“Stewart was quite the gentleman, completely different style but wow what a hell of a drummer he is. I would sit and watch him every night when we were playing with them.” That’s The Go-Go’s Gina Schock’s take on Stewart Copeland, The Police drummer who founded the band and helped bring them to mega-million success. […]

Although he is widely known in the rock & roll world as the drummer on some of Journey’s most popular hits – “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Separate Ways,” “Any Way You Want It,” “Faithfully” and “Who’s Crying Now” – Steve Smith has always called Jazz his home base.

Dokken. Foreigner. End Game. Dio. MSG. The list goes on for as long as your arm when it comes to naming all the bands and special musical projects that Jeff Pilson has been involved in. Going all the way back to ninth grade when he played dances with his band Mahogany, Pilson has had music […]

The Kinks have released The Journey – Part 1, a double CD featuring handpicked songs by the Davies brothers and Mick Avory.. The drummer legend shares the legacy of the band with Glide

You probably know her from the 1988 movie Crossing Delancey. Or Carrie. Or Honeysuckle Rose. The girl with all the curls and bright green eyes was a mainstay on stage and screen since the mid-1970s. She was in the stage version of Amadeus before the Academy Award-winning movie was made, and she was this close […]

Tyler Connolly had been home almost a week when we spoke for this interview. For someone just coming off the first leg of Theory Of A Deadman’s Rock Resurrection Tour with Skillet and Saint Asonia, he sounds pretty spry. I guess with a rocking new album, Dinosaur, having just been dropped on March 17th, getting […]

The Winery Dogs brought their masterful power trio sound to New Orleans House of Blues.

We caught up with Boogie recently to talk about his roots in music, the heart of his songwriting, the spontaneity of creating songs, and the continual pursuit of following his dream.

Jared James Nichols enters more rocking territory with his self titled new album

With the release of their new album on February 3rd, the Winery Dogs now have their third consecutive album worthy of being named Album Of The Year. With III, they have again hit highs in terms of lyrics, melodies, hard rock beats, and fusion/funk rhythms.