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“Around 4am, Jimi decided we should do some playing – fortunately, I had my Guild with me. It ended up as Voodoo Child”: How Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady wound up recording one of Jimi Hendrix's greatest studio jams

Jack Casady recalls the late-night studio session that became Hendrix's legendary Electric Ladyland recording

Guitar World

“It took me 10 or 11 takes to get the timing on the intro right. Jimi easily could have just done it”: The life and times of Dave Mason, the former Traffic guitarist who made a habit of playing on iconic tracks

The Traffic guitarist’s best work of the ’60s and ’70s was magical, but the stop/start nature of his career held him off household-name status

Guitar World

The Rolling Stones release song with Robert Smith and video with Anya Taylor-Joy

Both songs feature an appearance from former Spencer Davis Group and Traffic musician Steve Winwood on keys.

Evening Standard

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Rock's 20 greatest one-album wonders: The bands that made one album then vanished

They came, they saw, they disappeared – these are the bands who made one perfect album then split up

Louder

From Cream and Velvet Revolver to Them Crooked Vultures and Temple Of The Dog, these are the best supergroups in rock history

Some supergroups just aren't worth the sum of their parts. These are the exceptions

Louder

‘It kicks ass’: Rolling Stones launch new album at star-studded New York event

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood join Conan O’Brien to discuss forthcoming album Foreign Tongues

The Guardian - US

"It was a very intense few weeks." The Rolling Stones announce new album Foreign Tongues, featuring Paul McCartney, Robert Smith, Steve Winwood and more

Get ready for Stones' album number 25

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Dave Mason obituary

Singer, songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of the British rock group Traffic who clashed with the frontman Steve Winwood

The Guardian - UK

Thursday news quiz: insurance scams, drinking games and errors of biblical proportions

Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

"His songwriting, musicianship and distinctive spirit helped create music that has lasted far beyond its era." Steve Winwood pays tribute to fellow Traffic founder Dave Mason

Dave Mason and Steve Winwood founded Traffic in 1967 alongside Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood

Louder

Dave Mason, co-founder of Traffic known for 'We Just Disagree' and 'Feelin’ Alright,' dies at 79

Dave Mason, co-founder of the psychedelic British band Traffic and songwriter behind “Feelin’ Alright” and “Hole in My Shoe,” died Sunday at his home in Gardnerville, Nevada

The Independent UK

Dave Mason, co-founder of Traffic who had a star-studded solo career, dies aged 79

British singer and guitarist wrote and performed Traffic classics including Feelin’ Alright? before platinum-selling solo albums and work with Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac and more

The Guardian - UK

Traffic founder Dave Mason dead at 79

Dave Mason worked with Traffic, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and the Dominos, Mama Cass, Fleetwood Mac and many more in a sixty-year career

Louder

"Am I guilty by association, or the innocent receiver of stolen goods?" The surprisingly contentious origins of one of the greatest singles of the 60s

Gimme Some Lovin’ by the Spencer Davis Group was written in minutes - but its roots are still debated

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“There is absolutely nothing you can do with a broken soul. He sank into an abyss that he wasn’t able to dig his way out from”: He played with Traffic, Hendrix and Free. But this doomed musician has been all but forgotten today

The life and death of lost musical alchemist Chris Wood

Guitar World

“Jeff Beck would pick up my fretless and play the craziest licks. I was in awe”: Pino Palladino’s adventures with The Who, John Mayer, Eric Clapton and his Music Man fretless bass

One of the most identifiable bass players on the planet on why he shifted back to fretted, embracing flatwounds even though they were unfashionable, and how he’s still topping the charts with the likes of Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran

Louder

“The first thing I did in the morning was take a fix… I don’t know why I started. I suppose it was to overcome my insecurity”: He was a member of one of the most famous supergroups of the late 60s. But this forgotten great died in poverty aged just 43

The tragic story of one of rock’s lost greats

MusicRadar

“There was no planning. I was as shocked as everyone else”: Eric Prydz reveals why he’s changed his mind about playing THE hit

Before March 2025, he hadn’t played Call On Me in 20 years

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"We were sampling Steve Winwood in between bong rips on my OP-1": How Bon Iver met Haim backstage at a music festival - and ended up collaborating a decade later

Danielle Haim features on Bon Iver's If Only I Could Wait, from new album SABLE, fABLE

Louder

“Mitch Mitchell was a journeyman. He was hopeless. John Bonham, Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts… they’re a three or four out of 10”: An audience with Ginger Baker, rock’s most cantankerous drummer

From Cream to Blind Faith and beyond, this is how Ginger Baker revolutionised music

Louder

Tedeschi Trucks Band announce mammoth live schedule with Gov't Mule and Whiskey Myers

The tour will feature guest appearances from Steve Winwood, Buddy Guy, Little Feat, Duane Betts and more

Louder

"Not even Zeppelin or the Stones had ever done what we did": How Mick Jones invented Foreigner and paved the way for the multi-million-selling albums that dominated the next decade

Against all expectations, Foreigner's debut album sold millions. This is the real story behind one of the biggest debut albums ever

The Guardian - UK

Elton John on the keyboard geniuses who blew his mind: ‘With Zoot, you were in for a party’

Why do Britain’s guitar heroes become household names – yet its piano and organ players don’t? Let’s end this injustice, writes Elton John, as he pays tribute to all those thrilling showmen eternally confined to the wings

The Independent UK

Traffic founder Dave Mason cancels tour to seek ‘immediate’ medical attention

The singer-songwriter and guitarist has been diagnosed with a serious heart condition

The Guardian - UK

Will Jennings obituary

American lyricist who enjoyed huge success with Up Where We Belong and My Heart Will Go On

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