American Bandstand, which went national 61 years ago this past Sunday, is probably the most important program in music history. Watching the old...
Category - Historical
A few weeks ago, The Daily Music Break posted a news item on a survey conducted by the streaming service Deezer. The survey, which was reported upon at...
The next person featured in this haphazard week-long look at great American voices is Hazel Dickens. She is a bit lesser known than Lead Belly, Doctor John or...
For July 4th week, The Daily Music Break will present five musicians or bands that are deeply American. First up is Lead Belly, whose given name was Huddie...
Huffington Post this week posted two recordings from Jerry Garcia when he was 18 years old. The recordings of “All My Trials” and “Trouble in Mind”, the...
Rhiannon Giddens, who turned 41 last Wednesday, is a singer, violinist and banjo player. Here is a cut and paste from Wikipedia’s list of the genres she...
I scan several “This Day in Music”-type sites — rock, country, jazz, even classical — when stumped for a blog topic. Today, a country...
Next week will mark the 80th anniversary of the day that jazz came in from the cold. On January 16, 1938, Benny Goodman brought jazz to Carnegie Hall in New...
The song “We’ll Meet Again” has turned up many times. Three instances are particularly significant and memorable. The song was written by Hughie Charles and...
HT: DW We see history far more fully than we hear it. We have plenty of shots of Abraham Lincoln and know precisely what he looked like from when he was a...
