The influential band from Athens, Georgia was active from the 1980s until 2011. Here is the beginning of its profile at AllMusic: R.E.M. marked the point when...
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Hazel Dickens’ song Fire in the Hole is the title track from the 1987 John Sayles movie Matewan, which tells the story of a coal miners’ strike in...
Elvis is the King, but Roy Acuff is the King of Country Music. The stories of how performers got started invariably are interesting. Here is the beginning of...
The long and important life of Marian McPartland ended last week on Long Island, where the British native had lived for many years. McPartland was an important...
Here is the beginning of Wikipedia’s profile of Alexander Borodin, who seems to have been an interesting fellow: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin[1] (12...
There is no reason to link to a dull profile or biography of Charley Patton when the story is told by R. Crumb, the iconic, eccentric cartoonist responsible...
The Guardian reports that a Canadian dentist by the name of Michael Zuk is hoping to clone John Lennon. Two years ago the Red Deer-based dentist paid £19,500...
The Chordettes’ performance on the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show that aired on February 22, 1958 — a program hosted by Dick Clark — started...
This profile of the great guitarist Freddie King seems to have been written by a family member: Freddie was born in Gilmer Texas on September 3 1934 with the...
I struggled a bit with the names of the pieces. If anyone has more precise titles, please let me know. The Music Academy Online discusses the importance...
