There is no way to prove this, of course, but it seems safe to say that no war was as closely tied to the popular music of its era than Vietnam. What we know...
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The importance critics and fans ascribe to Kraftwerk is startling. Consider this, via Wikipedia: According to The Observer, “no other band since the...
Joan Chandos Báez – Joan Baez — is a big topic. Since everyone knows her and holds an opinion, it ironically makes it less necessary to go into details...
Elvin Bishop hardly has blues roots. He was born in Glendale, CA and lived near Elliott, IA until he was ten, when his family moved to Tulsa. His community was...
Country Music Television notes that today would have been the 73rd birthday of country music star Tammy Wynette. Here is more on Wynette, who was known as the...
It seems as if alto saxophonist Art Pepper had two careers: As an influential musician and as a heroin addict who was jailed on several occasions. In his...
Herbert Jay Solomon – Herbie Mann – is perhaps the best known and greatest jazz flutist. Mann’s Wikipedia profile says that Mann – who lived from 1930 to...
What can really be said about KISS? Wikipedia perhaps sums it up best: …the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s with their elaborate live...
Laura Marling is a British singer/songwriter/guitarist. Three of her first four albums — in 2008, 2010 and 2013 — were nominated for Mercury Awards...
HT: ES He had a stern visage and chiseled features (or was it stern features and chiseled visage?), invariably was called “Leonard” and generally...
