My City Was Gone seems like a pretty good way to sum up 2012 for a lot of people. Two sites offer opinions on what songs are the top ten for the band. One is a...
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While compiling a list of train songs last week, I came across a terrific version of I’ve Been Working on the Railroad by The Rooftop Singers. The...
Actually, it’s not a hard question if you look closely at their faces. Rapper Shawnna — above performing Gettin’ Some — is Guy’s...
Above is Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Iván Fischer. Oszkár Ökrös plays the incredibly...
I am reading Railroads and the American People by H. Roger Grant, a professor at Clemson. Unlike many train books, it doesn’t deal with the big story of the...
David Bromberg stands out even in a landscape in which there are many talented and eccentric acts. He is part rock-and-roll and blues royalty — he took...
The funeral for Jenni Rivera, who died in plane crash in northern Mexico on December 9, was held yesterday in Los Angeles. Reuters reported that more than...
The Detroit Metro Times lists more than 100 top songs from in and around the city. Here are its top ten: Marvin Gaye, 1971: What’s Goin’ On Stevie Wonder...
I don’t believe that Bessie Brown — who was billed as “The Original” Bessie Brown — was a major star. In a way, that makes the...
The owner of one of the great nicknames in jazz would have been 95 today. Above are Cleanhead Blues and Old Maid Boogie. The cuts were on a 1986 album...
