Reading between the Grooves

We finish off our Fourth Week Label feature of Shelter Records with a 1975 single by the Dwight Twilley Band. “I’m on Fire” would be the wo...

Freddy King, one of the “Three Kings of the Blues,” had a musical career that spanned from 1956 until his untimely death in 1976. His perfo...

A little over a month ago, the world lost a unique and talented musician, J.J. Cale. Although he had recorded at least six singles between ...

Day four of our Fourth Week Label Special highlighting Shelter Records takes us back to 1974 and Phoebe Snow’s debut single “Poetry Man.” R...

Day three of our look at Shelter Records takes us to the island of Jamaica where Shelter picked up the rights to release Bob Marley and the ...

Our second day of looking at Shelter Records features “Breakdown” – the first single by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Released from thei...

Active from 1969 to 1981, Shelter Records was the brainchild of Leon Russell and Denny Cordell. While featuring a number of artists from th...