This weekend was the fourth time that Sonny Landreth played at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festival. His name can get lost amid the megastars that Clapton...
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Trumpet player Freddie Hubbard, as the first two paragraphs of his AllMusic profile show, was one of the mainstays of jazz during the latter half of the...
Visitors to New York should keep in mind that lots of great sites are outside of Manhattan. One of those is the Louis Armstrong House, which is in Corona...
Documentary filmmaker Les Blank–many of whose films had musical subjects–died on April 7. Here is Blank’s Wikipedia entry. The film-maker Les...
Canadian folks singer Stompin’ Tom Connors — who died March 6 at age 77 — recorded an amazing 61 albums. Ten of them have not even been...
I always think of my distaste for the classic rock radio format when I hear songs such as The Letter. It’s one of the 50 or so songs to which the golden...
This Day in Music lists more than 20 musical personalities born on this day — including three each in 1947 and 1950 alone. Two are here: Nate Nelson of...
Calexico has released eight albums. This is how AllMusic describes the band: Calexico, a Tucson collective of musicians focused around Joey Burns and John...
Odetta was an influential singer in the 1960s folk/protest movement era. Here is how Wikipedia starts its profile: Odetta Holmes (December 31, 1930 – December...
Both the music and the text of Peter and the Wolf, which was an effort to teach children about orchestras and instill a love of music, were written by Sergei...
