Legendary music producer of classic ’90s albums dies at 73

Power’s death was first announced Monday in an Instagram post from Okayplayer, the music platform founded by Questlove of The ...

Bob Power, Hip-Hop Engineer and A Tribe Called Quest Collaborator, Dies at 73

A producer, recording engineer and sound mixer, he helped pioneer the early use of sampling in rap music, including on the influential album “The Low End Theory” by A Tribe Called Quest.

Bob Dylan's Greatest 1970s Album Contains Some of His Most Ruthless Lyrics

Bob Dylan’s 1975 classic Blood on the Tracks captures heartbreak and poetic fury in one of the greatest and most emotionally raw albums ever recorded.

Bob Power, recording engineer for the Roots and A Tribe Called Quest, dies at 73

Bob Power, a musician and engineer who worked closely with some of the top hip-hop and R&B acts of the 1990s and 2000s — ...
The Root

10 Songs Engineered By Bob Power, The Invisible Architect of Some of Your Favorite Hip-Hop Hits

Bursting on the scene with jazzy vocals and impeccable style, Erykah Badu found her first #1 R&B hit with “On & On.” Power mixed this debut single that launched Badu into stardom. He refined the ...
Forbes

Bob Seger’s Biggest Album Brings The Rocker To A Major Chart Milestone

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band’s Greatest Hits reaches 600 weeks on the Billboard 200, becoming one of the 20 longest-charting albums ever. Los Angeles - CIRCA 1988: Singer Bob Seger & The ...

Bob Power, Prolific Engineer Behind Hip-Hop Classics, Dies at 73

Bob Power speaking in 2016, Cindy Ord/WireImage for The Recording Academy. Bob Power, the engineer and producer behind ...

Bob Power, Engineer and Producer Who Excavated Hip-Hop’s Low End, Dead at 73

Bob Power, the celebrated engineer and producer who worked on classic albums by A Tribe Called Quest, Erykah Badu, the Roots, and more, has died.
American Songwriter

The Purposefully Terrible Album Bob Dylan Wrote to Try to Escape His Celebrity: “I Got Very Resentful”

Bob Dylan’s eccentric opacity is nearly as famous as his genre-defining songwriting. So, it only makes sense that, upon discovering the glow of the public spotlight was becoming uncomfortably warm, ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1974, Bob Dylan Scored His First No. 1 Album Despite a Last-Minute Change That Uprooted Its Release

On this day (February 16) in 1974, Bob’s 14th studio effort, Planet Waves, topped the chart. Originally set to be titled Ceremonies Of The Horsemen, Dylan’s decision to change the name last minute ...
Forbes

Making Bob Marley’s ‘Legend’: How Market Research Shaped The Album

LONDON - JULY 1977: Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley (1945 - 1981) performs live on stage in June 1977 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images) Dave Robinson ...
The Jamaica Observer

The story behind Bob Marley’s iconic ‘Survival’ album cover

Released by Island Records in October, 1979, Survival is considered by many people to be Bob Marley’s most militant album. Inspired by the anti-colonial movement in Africa, its jacket is adorned with ...