What I understand about this story at NPR is that it is an advance for Moogfest, the gathering of Moog synthesizer adherents that is set for Asheville, N.C...
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I took a couple of days off and went with the family to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. It’s a terrific getaway for folks in the mid-Atlantic states.
The challenge of featuring super bands or A-list performers is that folks who are familiar with them know far more than I do and those that don’t —...
Yesterday, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum launched a Patsy Cline exhibition that will run until next June. The charismatic Cline’s best known...
An exhibit celebrating the music — and, according to a review at Billboard.com, de-emphsizing the dramatic life — of Patsy Cline opened today at...
Today, Mitt Romney made a lame birther joke about President Obama. The Obama campaign quickly responded that Born in the U.S.A. is the song of the day. One...
I believe, but am not certain, that I first heard this great Blaze Foley song at the site Crooks and Liars. In any case, it made a deep impression. I Googled...
Professor Jam’s take on the top ten songs of 1973, from a list of 100. I’m not sure of the criteria he used. Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly Carly...
I look for any rationale for playing great tunes. So, happy 58th birthday, Mark Avsec. Avsec was the keyboardist in Wild Cherry, whose Play that Funky Music...
Wikipedia, as usual, sums it up nicely: Often regarded as the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the...
