This week’s birthday celebrants.
Pylon guitarist Randy Bewley, July 25, 1955
“Sunny” composer Bobby Hebb, July 26, 1941
Classical pianist Angela Hewitt, July 26, 1958
Country singer/“Ode to Billie Joe” writer Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter), July 27, 1944
Blues singer/guitarist/songwriter Junior Kimbrough, July 28, 1930
Italian conductor Riccardo Muti, July 28, 1941
Jazz guitar innovator Charlie Christian, July 29, 1916
British singer/songwriter Kate Bush, July 30, 1958
Jazz pianist Hank Jones, July 31, 1918
Bauhaus/Tones on Tail/Love and Rockets guitarist Daniel Ash, July 31, 1957
On behalf of all of us here at bigtakeover.com and Big Takeover Magazine, I bid you welcome to our newly redesigned site! Looks cool, doesn’t it? Our print magazine is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, going back to a good 15 years or so before there was any electronic media. So the timing is perfect. Our endeavor has come a long, long way from the days of typing, Xeroxing, reducing, stapling, folding, mailing, shipping, and selling at gigs, and we are celebrating this long three decades of service and commentary in three distinct ways this year.
We only come out twice a year, every Spring and Fall, so you don’t want to miss one of our jam-packed 192-page issues! Read on for a quick description of the new issue’s contents.