Tom Lehrer has a short and brilliant career. He retired to lecture in mathematics and teach musical theater in California. Here is the beginning of an...
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Editor’s Note: The folks at Go-DIY Records were kind enough to post a note that TDMB welcomes new music. Several bands have sent me links and samples. My plan...
Sex Bomb (above) is perhaps the most bizarre recording I’ve even seen. The skeevy lyrics, the apparently well coached informerical-like audience and the...
Son House is unique, even among the old blues players. The song below — John the Revelator — is like watching history. Death Letter Blues is above...
Like a lot of Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker’s songs, Mary Jane’s Last Dance (above) seems to have a touch of Dylan and a touch of British...
Apparently, both Albertina Walker and Malhalia Jackson were known as The Queen of Gospel at various times. She probably inherited the title. Jackson took the...
New Orleans has a genius for producing great food and great trumpet and cornet players. Indeed, Louis Armstrong — who Wynton Marsalis pays homage to...
This Day in Music notes that Dan Hartman died of a brain tumor on March 22, 1994. Hartman was a mainstay in both Winters’ careers and, among other...
Low Rider, above, doesn’t start until about a minute and half into the clip. It is interesting to watch Don Cornelius hold court, however. War has a...
Editor’s Note: The folks at Go-DIY Records were kind enough to post a note that TDMB welcomed new music. Several bands have sent me links and samples. My plan...
