About 8 or 9 years ago I used to work at Amoeba records in San Francisco. I was what they call a floorwalker, in charge of putting out CD's, keeping records in stock, pruning and merchadising my sections (R and B/Acid Jazz/Groove), and talking with customers. Musically I learned more in those 9 months than I had in the prior 10 years. At the time Amoeba had about 90 full time employees and ev...
Blues singer and guitarist Robert Ward , who was also a founding member of the Ohio Players, passed away back on Christmas Day at the age of 70. His wife, Roberta, said he had suffered a stroke in 2001 and had never fully recovered. Ward first played guitar at the age of 10 in rural Georgia and, after a stint in the Army in the mid-50's, formed the Brassettes who opened for artists like Jam...
