CNN has an interesting piece about music and the inauguration, which is set for Monday. The show should be pretty good: This year’s festivities include a...
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Burl Ives, who had one of the great voices of the twentieth century, was identified with old ballads and other forms of Americana. He was a folk singer, but...
Eartha Kitt would have been 86 years old today. Above, she sings I Want to Be Evil, in a video that has one odd camera angle after another. Here is more on the...
Like so many folks who had stellar careers and have been around forever, Tony Bennett’s early story is filled with familiar names: The young singer was...
Thanks to my friend Tim for letting me know about Robert Randolph and the Family Band. A couple of paragraphs about the band’s new album, We Walk This...
Talk about moving in opposite directions: This Day in Music says that on this day in 1988, Tina Turner performed in front of 182,000 in Rio De Janeiro. It was...
Jan Mark Wolkin’s profile of Mike Bloomfield is affectionate and very interesting. This passage describes Bloomfield’s early exploits in Chicago:...
Great version of Master of the House from Les Misérables from the tenth anniversary concert, which was taped in October, 1995 at the Royal Albert Hall in...
Kathleen Battle’s website likes her: Soprano Kathleen Battle’s luminous voice has been called “…without qualification, one of the very...
John Lee Hooker recorded music for more than 50 years. Here is the beginning of his website bio: Born near Clarksdale, Mississippi on August 22, 1917 to a...
