The early rock and rollers faced a bit of a challenge as they aged. The genre inherently is that of young people — or at lest was at its inception. Those...
Category - Rock
Larry Campbell: “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning” (with Teresa Williams) and “Texas Crapshooter”
Guitarist Larry Campbell has played with everyone. He was in Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour band, which ran from 1997 through 2004. He has played with Levon...
Cliff Richard — Harry Rodger Webb– was born in 1940. He is a giant of English pop music. He has sold more than 250 million records there and...
The guitar hero superman started with Jimi Hendrix and continues today. There is a long list of great ones: Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Leslie West...
Les Dudek, who is one of the many great guitarists who run a bit under the radar, had an interesting history by the time he was born, according to Wikipedia...
This Day in Rock says rather vaguely that “People Got to be Free” by the Rascals “was a hit this day” in 1968. I suppose it was. And it probably was on August...
There are a great number of important musical birthdays at this time of year. Recently, The Daily Music Break posted on Junior Kimbrough and Ramblin’...
Wikipedia offers the impressive statistics that 19 musicians have been full time members of the progressive rock band Yes. Indeed, Stereogum’s Phil Freeman...
The use of America’s “A Horse with No Name” in the third episode of the second season of the show Breaking Bad was perfect. The clip above is not the highest...
The James Gang was in the second tier of rock acts from the perspectives of popularity and record sales. However, the James Gang had their moments, their fans...
