If you heard a hot guitar lick on a record from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, there’s a decent chance you were listening to Grady Martin. The prolific member of the Nashville A-Team played on ...

If our list of Rock's 20 Best Backing Vocalists proves anything, it's that the genre is often a team sport. Lead singers can find themselves in an unenviable position as the de facto mouthpieces of ...

Nearly every country fan has a favorite country singer. However, some don’t spare a thought for the band that lays down the sonic backdrop for the singer. Without a good backing band, even the best ...

To use backing tracks or not? It's one of the hottest topics in the world of rock and metal and there are some very nuanced responses to the question when it comes to how you present your band in the ...

Foreigner vocalist Kelly Hansen had blistering words for bands that use backing tracks: “Tell them to go fuck themselves.” Pink Floyd Saxophonist Dick Parry Dead at 83 Pink Floyd Saxophonist Dick ...