Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown was an extraordinarily gifted musician. Most folks are aware that he was a great and influential blues guitarist. I...
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The Daily Music Break takes every opportunity to send out birthday greetings to musicians of note. I wanted to do that today and found that I Booker T. Jones...
The Modern Jazz Quartet wanted to swing and, at the same time, bridge the gap between jazz and classical music. The group had remarkable stability in its...
The Daily Music Break is starting a contest. It’s a win/win/win: Contestants get great music, worthy charities get (my) money and TDMB gets traffic. The...
The Daily Music Break was supposed to feature a podcast with country singer/songwriter Dan Weber today. We were halfway through recording it when my computer...
Valerie June Hockett — who performs as Valerie June — was born in Tennessee, lived in Memphis and has relocated to Brooklyn. The 32-year-old...
H/T: Steve Karras People who attack their instruments are great. This is Jon Dee Graham and the song is “October.” Here is more on Graham, who...
(Note: This post was written in 2014) It’s challenging to write about Prince. He has been around for so long and has released a mountain of music in...
The top song this week in 1972 was The Temptations’ great “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone.” It really is a very sad song. Check out the...
A Conversation with Jessica Campbell This is an edited version of responses to questions The Daily Music Break posed to Jessica Campbell, a young Nashville...
