As the 70s became the 80s, commercial Black music in the US was ruled by one style: disco. Funk, reggae and soul sat in the background, but the dancefloor’s most basic beat ruled. One record ...
The transition from one decade to the next is significant in more ways than just the flipping of a calendar page. For musicians, it can represent a sonic, aesthetic and ideological changing of the ...
The reason for ’80s country music’s contagiously catchy tunes is partially because this was the start of pop country. Although, a far more watered-down version of what we know it to be today.