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Home » Bee Gees

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Barry Gibb reinvents Bee Gees cuts as country songs with help from friends

by Steve Krakow January 6, 2021August 18, 2021

When I heard that the lone surviving Bee Gee, Barry Gibb, was releasing a country album, I didn’t bat an eye. Though the band are best known for the falsetto-laden hits of their disco years, and secondarily for the baroque psychedelia they played in the 1960s (which music snobs like me love), Gibb’s musical life […]

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Johnny Pate is one of the great unsung architects of Chicago soul

by Steve Krakow July 30, 2019August 18, 2021

This 95-year-old living legend has played jazz, written blaxploitation soundtracks, and arranged for Stan Getz, B.B. King, and most famously Curtis Mayfield—but he’s probably most widely heard via hip-hop samples.

Posted inBlogs

Boogie over to the Texas Tiki Disco at Lost Lake before it’s gone

by Jake Malooley March 3, 2016August 18, 2021

The 1970s-inspired takeover of Lost Lake by Houston’s Anvil Bar & Refuge runs through Friday.

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Vintage WTF From the Bee Gees

by Miles Raymer April 29, 2011August 19, 2021

A disastrous movie based on a great record

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Ads From the Past: July 4, 1975

by Vera Videnovich April 1, 2011August 19, 2021

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