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Music Review: David Cassidy Shoots for the Hip on ‘The Higher They Climb’

Trying to leave his teen-idol image behind him, David Cassidy garnered backup on The Higher They Climb from such rock

Bruce Springsteen greeted 1974 with one foot planted firmly in the promised land, the other still stuck in the backstreets.

One of these days, everybody’s going to discover Sam Cooke, and then maybe they’ll make a movie about him, too.

Texan Billy Neely has been singing and picking country guitar since 1929 and age 13, when he encountered his idol,

With jazz and country meanderings apparently out of his system, Leon Russell has returned to a solid rock footing and

John Denver didn’t write “Thank God I’m a Country Boy,” his current chart number, but its lyrics seem to sum

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