Ask a casual rock fan if he or she has heard of The Choir, and you’re likely to get a quizzical look followed by a “no.” Pose the same question to a hardcore music fiend — especially one with a familiarity with the Cleveland music scene — and the answer is more likely to be “yes.” But even in that latter case, any subsequent conversation is likely to center around “It’s Cold Outside,” a regional hit for The Choir in an early configuration. That track was included on Rhino’s expanded 4-CD version of the Lenny Kaye-curated Nuggets compilation. Originally released in 1966, “It’s Cold Outside” is today considered a classic of the garage rock subgenre, and the lineup that recorded the song is also notable: Three of its four members would go on to the Raspberries, heroes of the early ’70s power-pop movement.
But there’s another chapter to the saga of The Choir, and it’s one that — while less known — yielded substantive creative output. In 1969, that later, more musically ambitious lineup recorded a cache of material, but that music wouldn’t see official release for nearly half a century. And in large part thanks to the enthusiastic reception for Artifact: The Unreleased Album, the later-period Choir lineup reunited to play a handful of live dates. Now in 2020, Omnivore Recordings has released an audio document of one of those shows, Last Call: Live at the Music Box.
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THE GRAND POOBAH!
SINCE THEIR INCARNATION in the early 1970s, the band Poobah have recorded over a dozen albums with various lineups, while openi ng for some of rock and roll’s biggest names.
THE MAKING OF PEARL
JANIS JOPLIN IN 1970: A NEW B AND AND THE MAKING OF HER CLASSIC ALBUM, PEARL.
There Must Have Been Something in the Water
If The Beatles never happened, if the British invasion never occurred, then music fans around the world would more than likely never have been exposed to some of the finest white blues singers that the U.K. produced between 1964 and 1970.
The SAGA Continues
SAGA WERE NOT THE ONLY band to make an album during the pandemic — far from it.
Ten Years After MORE THAN 50 YEARS LATER
DRUMMER RIC LEE TALKS TO GOLDMINE ABOUT A TEN YEARS AFTER DELUXE EDITION OF THE A STING IN THE TALE ALBUM AND HIS RECENTLY RELEASED MEMOIR, FROM HEADSTOCKS TO WOODSTOCK.
SUZI QUATRO IS BACK!
WITH A NEW ALBUM, THE DEVIL IN ME, THIS PIONEERING FEMALE ROCKER REMAINS AS DRIVEN AND DETERMINED AS EVER
RE-SHAKE & RE-MAKE
WITH THE RERELEASE OF THEIR DEBUT ALBUM, SHAKE YOUR MONEY MAKER, THE BLACK CROWES FLY HIGH BY REFLECTING ON THEIR ROOTS.
LOVE FOR PEARL
2021 will be a big year for fans of Janis Joplin. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is curating a special exhibit devoted to her that is scheduled to open in May.
Q&A WITH JANIS' SIBLINGS, LAURA AND MICHAEL JOPLIN
Q&A WITH JANIS’ SIBLINGS, LAURA AND MICHAEL JOPLIN
CHERISHING CITY TO CITY A timeless classic by GERRY RAFFERTY
It’s early 1978 and the new single by Scottish singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, “Baker Street,” is blasting out on the airwaves on my small transistor radio.