James Blood Ulmer, Innovative Guitarist Who Fused the Avant-Garde to Blues, Dead at 86
Applying lessons from Ornette Coleman to popular music, Ulmer was a true original
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‘We were going off the cliff’: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil on inventing grunge – and losing Chris Cornell and Kurt Cobain
As he publishes a memoir, the pioneering guitarist talks about rejecting spandex and hair metal, his fears for breakthrough hit Black Hole Sun – and completing nine unfinished Soundgarden songs Kim Thayil has always felt like an outsider. For example: the Soundgarden guitarist has lived in Seatt...