Legendary musician, producer and songwriter Al Kooper has released Black Coffee, his seventh solo album and his first in 30 years. Kooper has worked with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and B.B. King.

, which featured "Sweet Home Alabama." In fact, the Brooklyn-born Kooper is the "Yankee Slicker" Ronnie Van Zant is referring to in the song And though you've probably never noticed it, that's Kooper ...

The great Al Kooper. He founded Blood Sweat and Tears, played with the Rolling Stones, BB King, the Who, and many more. And by accident, he played the most famous organ riff ever on the number-one ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- You’d be hard-pressed to find a more apt recipient for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Musical Excellence Award than Al Kooper. Since playing guitar with the Royal Teens (of “Short ...

Al Kooper and Michael Bloomfield found themselves in strange positions in the summer of 1968. Kooper had played the distinctive organ hook on Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” before joining the ...

Al Kooper is an unlikely digital revolutionary. The 65-year-old Kooper is best known for several of rock’s most awesome analog moments. He played the check-your-head organ blasts on Bob Dylan’s “Like ...

Al Kooper, the invaluable musician who brought essential flavors to landmark records by Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, created Blood, Sweat & Tears and produced classic albums by Lynyrd Skynyrd and ...

Kooper joins frequent Rock Hall nominee Chaka Khan and Elton John’s lyricist Bernie Taupin in the category, which was introduced during 2000 as the sideman award and renamed during 2010. Previous ...

Keep your weekends full of the coolest things to do around Boston with our weekly Weekender newsletter. Bobby Gregg’s opening snare drum snap of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” has been described ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Al Kooper at his desk, 1970. Lynyrd Skynyrd were just a bar band until Kooper, the founding member of Blood Sweat & Tears, ...

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Those credits would be enough to secure Kooper's place in the rock pantheon, but in the Seventies he also discovered and produced the Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd - famous for the anthemic ballad ...