Henry Mancini, who wrote a lot of the background music of our lives, would have been ninety years old today. He died in 1994. The Henry Mancini website is...
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Here is what the Seattle Times said about Vaudeville Etiquette. The band’s website offers this: Seattle folk-rock band Vaudeville Etiquette embraces...
Irving Berlin (originally Isidor Baline, though there is uncertainty about his first name) quite possibly is the greatest songwriter in American history. One...
Music has a great ability to renew itself. Check out Ryan Shupe & the RubberBand, a bluegrass group from Utah breathes new life — and not a little...
The playlist is at the bottom of this page. I recognize “Match Box Blues” as a song that has been modernized. Versions of “All I Want is Pure...
Jon Herington on Steely Dan, playing across genres, guitarists he admires, running his own band and more: I spoke with Steely Dan guitarist Jon Herington via...
AllMusic’s bio of blues legend Buddy Guy was written by Mark Deming. Here is how it starts: Buddy Guy is one of the most celebrated blues guitarists of...
Bomb disposal may be the only vocation more terrifying than playing in a classical orchestra. Think about it: A rock musician plays a wrong note and, honestly...
Here are some good sources of information on Bob Dylan: Biography has the bio, naturally…and more. Wikipedia has the whole story in detail. Rolling Stone...
