After a widely panned national anthem performance, the Motown legend deflected fault onto her backing vocalists, then sang it again solo — with similar results.
After a widely panned national anthem performance, the Motown legend deflected fault onto her backing vocalists, then sang it again solo — with similar results.
DeForrest Brown’s latest as Speaker Music channels Detroit techno-soul through a disciplined, real-time process that examines music’s deeper structures and intentions.
In 1967, as Detroit erupted, John Lee Hooker translated the uprising into a blues. That act of sonic agency defines a crucial thread in the city’s musical history.