The Gershwins – composer George and lyricist Ira – are among the most important figures in American music history. As with many transformative artists, the...
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Gustav Mahler was born in 1860 in what is now the Czech Republic. Wikipedia calls Mahler a “bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition” and...
“This Life” is the theme “Sons of Anarchy,” which had its final season premiere this week. The song is from Curtis Stigers and was...
[column size=one_half position=first ] Richard Thompson’s career is hard to sum up because it is so long, varied and distinguished. Though he is thought...
This nice newly released song and video from The Tallest Tree is “I’ll Be Your (For You).” It reminds me a bit of “I’m Your...
Editor’s note: TDMB is reposting great music from the early days of the site. This was originally posted on April 20, 2012 and some of the details are out of...
Tom Paxton was born in Chicago in 1937 and spent his childhood in Oklahoma and Arizona. Wikipedia says that he was given his first stringed instrument, a...
Wikipedia offers an extraordinarily precise — some would say anal — explanation of the genesis of the name of Fountains of Wayne: The band was...
Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa” was the top song on this day in 1950 in the three categories that Billboard followed in those days: It was the...
For a band of some importance, there is almost no decent video of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. The vintage clip above looks like it was shot...
