This post was all ready to go yesterday morning. It wasn’t a good day to highlight a song called “Shotgun,” however, so the birthday note for...
Category - Rhythm and Blues
It’s my birthday, so I checked out This Day in Music, which said that Junior Parker — who wrote “Mystery Train” — was born on...
There are a lot of songs that are just cool. Some great ones: “Hit the Road Jack,” of course, and “Speedoo” by The Cadillacs. And just...
This is the title track of Leon Bridges’ new album. Note the guitar he is playing at about the :45 mark. There is a lot of symbolism in this video.
Both the lyrics and delivery of this song are intense. From Wikipedia: Joseph Arrington, Jr. (August 8, 1935[1]–August 13, 1982), better known as Joe Tex, was...
HT: EW Here is Joss Stone singing The Impression’s great “People Get Ready.” Here is more about the song and here ex-Impression is Curtis...
Last week, The Daily Music Break posted a clip of Chubby Checker singing — and dancing — “The Twist” on the 50th anniversary of his...
Tony! Toni! Toné! was a pretty big R&B band back in the 1990s. I hadn’t paid much attention, except for thinking that it seemed to be a pretty bad...
We were stuck is a pretty nasty traffic jam yesterday on Route 17 approaching the Tappen Zee Bridge in New York returning from my daughter’s college...
Usually, it’s bad to make assumptions. Once in a while it works out, though. In only one case has the site done more than one post on artist. Many have...