An idea of the importance of William Christopher (W.C.) Handy is apparent in his nickname: The Father of the Blues. Handy was born in Florence, Alabama, in...
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This is Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” played a student orchestra from the University of Indiana’s Jacobs School of Music. The...
Tony! Toni! Toné! was a pretty big R&B band back in the 1990s. I hadn’t paid much attention, except for thinking that it seemed to be a pretty bad...
[column size=one_half position=first ] [/column][column size=one_half position=last ]The Daily Music Break has covered The Band to some extent, but has mostly...
There is lots of great music on WFUV, the Radio Station of Fordham University in The Bronx. And it’s all there to be reviewed at the website. This is a...
This Day in Music notes that today would have been Peggy Lee’s 95th birthday. Wikipedia says that Lee — Norma Deloris Egstrom – was a singer...
Happy Memorial Day. The gentleman who posts these videos, Don McCuaig, seems to pick memorial day to honor, though the videos are shot before. Trains are very...
A while ago, I happened upon a great NPR article on guitarists that the author thought would appeal to John Fahey. One of the guitarists featured in that...
John Adam (Sleepy John) Estes was a sharecropper who lived from 1899 to 1977. He made his debut recordings, according to Wikipedia, in Memphis in 1929. The...
While “researching” a post — ie, listening to music on YouTube — a few weeks ago on Elvin Bishop, I found this tremendous cover of...
