Down Home Girl This is from the Old Crow Medicine Show’s bio at its site. The band currently is touring the midwest: Old Crow Medicine Show got...
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A very comprehensive collection of information about Emmylou Harris is available here. Basic biographical information is available at many places...
The power is out again. The End of the World–sung by Skeeter Davis–seems to be about right. What’s your favorite song of the apocalypse?
The great trumpeter was born on this day in 1922. He passed away in 1999. The clip of Java is from The Ed Sullivan Show in 1963.
I had no power for eight days because of the hurricane, but TDMB is back. Did anything interesting happen in the news in the meantime?
Rolling Stone reports on the tribute concert to Chuck Berry as he accepted the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame American Masters of Music Award. The concert – during...
Marie Laveau — featured in this History Channel segment — was a practitioner of voodoo in old New Orleans. The song that bears her name is played...
It’s funny that one of the great early hip hop videos features David Letterman stooge Larry “Bud” Mellman. Here is Wikipedia on Run-DMC:...
On Oct. 25, an audience at the GE Theatre in Schenectady, NY, heard a voice from close to the big bang of audio recording. The man recites Mary Had a Little...
There is no way to improve on the way This Day in Music wrote up this item: 2007, 1,730 guitarists played the immortal Bob Dylan classic, ‘Knocking On...
