Blues Traveler was featured in a cute scene in Blues Brothers. Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd, of course) performed Rock Me Baby with the band later. He seems to be...
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Dave Van Ronk is refreshing, even 50 years later. I only feature two songs in a post, but if you have time also check out Stackerlee, (also known as Stagolee...
Sea Chanties are great. Rob Ossian’s Pirate Cove has a wealth of good information. Wikipedia defines them well: A shanty (also spelled...
I will let This Day in Music trace the barest outline of the extraordinary career of drummer Earl Palmer, who died at age 64 on this day in 2008: Worked with...
Broadway World had an item on Monday on a short film, Trane and Miles, that chronicles the making of Kind of Blue, which the story says is the best-selling...
Papa Jo Jones, one of the greatest jazz drummers, appears in the remarkable video above. It is part one of Louis Panassié’s “L’Aventure du...
Vladimir Horowitz was a towering figure in classical piano. The descriptions suggest that he ran at full tilt, but never lost control. The clip above —...
This Day in Music reports that today is birthday of Maria Muldaur (1943) and George Jones (1941) and the anniversary of Johnny Cash’s death (2003). In...
Curtis Mayfield, among many other distinctions, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Impressions and as a solo act. Superfly...
One of the biggest differences between music now and when I was a kid — and certainly prior to that — is the ability to add a variety of other...
