This Day in Music relates that on August 13, 1952 Big Mama Thornton recorded Leiber and Stoller‘s “Hound Dog” which, of course, subsequently...
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Last week, The Daily Music Break posted a clip of Chubby Checker singing — and dancing — “The Twist” on the 50th anniversary of his...
Wikipedia’s profile of the Indigo Girls – Amy Ray and Emily Sailiers – says that the two met in elementary school and have performed together since they were...
This Week in Music reports that on this day in 1960 Chubby Checker appeared on American Bandstand and performed “The Twist.” The YouTube link has a...
I am not a critic or a musician, but think that the pure and clean tone of Hubert Laws is tremendous. Perhaps not quite as well known as Herbie Mann, Laws, who...
Charlie Shavers would have turned 95 years old today. Shavers, a jazz trumpet player who performed with all of the greats of his era, died at the young age of...
The first idea for this post was to cover a genre that had yet to be posted at the site. One of those is the barbershop quartet, and I found a version of...
HT: Emily Ava Marie is a new band out of Poultney, Vermont that recently released a six-song EP online. It will be in vinyl next month, according to Seven Days...
Rudy Vallee would have turned 115 years old today. Wikipedia says that Vallee — Hubert Prior Vallée — “…was one of the first modern pop...
A Conversation with Doug MacLeod: . In December, I had the pleasure of chatting with blues songwriter and performer Doug MacLeod. Suffice to say, chatting with...
