I usually shy away from posting on bands or performers for whom I can’t find video. After all, seeing the acts is as much fun and illuminating as hearing...
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It’s against the spirit of jazz to focus too much on a single player, so we are leading off this post about Lionel Hampton with Avalon (above). It...
I found these songs courtesy of Yahoo Answers. Here is the start of the profile of Ben Folds Five at the band’s site. It seems, however, that the two...
Yesterday was the 54th anniversary of the plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, The Big Booper and Richie Valens. Here is the entire story at...
The Super Bowl has a long history of presenting performers who are considered past their prime. The focus is on high profile, not relevance. Sometimes, though...
The talented and famously weird Prince — who abandoned that name for a few years — is back. His new song, Rock and Roll Revolution, is great. Below...
This Day in Music reports that the first 45 RPM single was issued by RCA on this day in 1949. BBC and the video above says that the song was Texakana Baby sung...
When I post on a type of music with which I am unfamiliar, generally the first step is to surf the category to identify the big performers. When I did this...
The guitarist in the white shirt in both these videos of the band Strange But Surf is a good childhood friend of my brother’s and a friend of mine. Here...
Not everyone is a superstar, but there are great musicians all over. Unfortunately, one of them — pianist Ann Rabson — passed away yesterday at age...
