Little Richard — Richard Wayne Penniman — is one of the pillars of rock and roll. The Macon, GA native was born in 1932, the third of 12 children...
Category - Rock
Sad news. Nobody was a better guitar player than Johnny Winter. One of the things I read today — I forget where — that rings true is that Winter...
These folks have been around for a while, but it still is safe to say they represent the next generation of C southern rock.heck out The Three Great Alabama...
I wanted to feature Chuck Berry playing “Back in the U.S.A.” for the fourth of July. The problem was that I found two great versions. One is from...
The number one song on this day in 1967 — indeed, from June 25 to July 22 — was “Windy” by The Association, according to bobborst.com...
Everybody gets old, only some do it gracefully. Above is “Bad Romance” with the very beginning cut off. Beck was previously featured at TDMB in an...
[column size=one_half position=first ]Three things have surprised me since I started The Daily Music Break: Norah Jones is Ravi Shankar’s daughter, Herb...
During a podcast I conducted last week with Denny Somach — the author of “Get the Led Out: How Led Zeppelin Became the Biggest Band in the...
I confess that I had never head of Freddy Cannon until today. I was intrigued by this oddity: Here’s the most amazing music-trivia factoid in a long...
[column size=one_half position=first ] Carl Perkins is one of the pillars of rock and roll. Here is the beginning of his profile at The Rock & Roll Hall...
