Another recommendation from my son. This is the best band ever formed by guys who met in typing class. Probably. In any case, Roses are Free (above) is...
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The Billy Strayhorn Jazz Festival, organized by the Music Institute of Chicago and Billy Strayhorn Songs Inc. will be held this weekend in Evanston, Ill. Check...
This family video of R.L. Burnside playing When My First Wife Left Me (above) was shot by the legendary Alan Lomax (along with Worth Long and John Bishop) in...
The ex Rolling Stones bassist was born on this day in 1936. Here is a terrific clip — the song is called Any Way the Wind Blows — with Bill...
The World Series begins tonight, and the MercuryNews has a list of the “walk up” music for the starting lineups of each team. The term refers to the music...
This interesting Wikipedia entry says that Sweetwater was scheduled to be the first act at Woodstock but “problems within the band” — use...
A blogger/musician named Noah Baerman posted, a couple of years ago, a nice essay on Los Lobos. He also offered his thoughts on the band’s ten best songs...
Garth Brooks was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville on Sunday. The story says that Brooks 128 million records. His heroes are George...
As the bio below suggests, Eumir Deodato is by far best recognized for his version of Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey...
I was looking for a nice afternoon post and happened across this famous photograph. Here is the story of the shot, which features just about every famous jazz...
