Features Music News Why It Mattered: Buddy Guy’s Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues by Happy Buddy Guy’s album Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues is a commercial comeback masterpiece that earned him the recognition he deserved after a decade-long hiatus…
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Features Aretha Franklin – ‘I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You’: Why It Mattered by Dan Shaw With her tenth studio album, Aretha Franklin finally broke through with the timeless I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You. I Never…
Features Pro Audio Joni Mitchell – ‘Blue’: Why It Mattered by Tim McArtney Joni Mitchell’s Blue is a timeless masterpiece. Its songs arose from dealing with fame, and the sensations associated with grief and new beginnings. In 1970, as Joni…
Features News Tame Impala – ‘Currents’: Why It Mattered by Emily Elvish Currents boasts a significant legacy: it challenged the authority of guitar within rock and took disco-psych into the mainstream. If one of music’s most brilliant…
Music News Video Why the masterpiece ‘Jagged Little Pill’ mattered to just about everyone by Chloe Maddren Why It Mattered is a new video series by Happy Mag discussing and celebrating albums that changed the world. We are proud to announce that…
