The above probably predates The Thundering Herd, which was the great name that Herman used for years. It was a driving and creative band. Here is the first...
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This morning, I posted an item about Norah Jones. Jones, I learned yesterday, is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. Here is dad at work…
The Mother Nature Network has an interesting story detailing how music is helping people with serious spinal injuries. Patients are fitted with a glove that...
I had no idea that Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. It was the most surprising thing I’ve learned since starting this...
CNN has a nice pictorial entitled Billie Holiday’s Illustrious Career.
It’s sad to continually have to commemorate the passing of members of any community, and the community of musicians is no exception. Yesterday, it was...
Taj Mahal has been around forever. The only thing that seems to have changed is that he gained a bit of weight. He still sounds great. Mahal released one of...
Kitty Wells, called The Queen of Country Music, has died at age 92 in Madison Tennessee. Wells, originally Ellen Muriel Deason, was born on August 30, 1919 in...
These are the last moments of the Bruce Springsteen/Paul McCartney concert in Hyde Park, London on Saturday. The concert ended when Live Nation was forced to...
This is from a 1934 Broadway show of the same name. It is old — very old — but brilliant. The contemporary references certainly are lost on most of...
