The Daily Music Break spends a lot of its time discussing musicians who are old and treading on past reputations, retired or no longer among the living. There...
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Slowly and inevitably, the rock and roll pioneers are passing away. Chuck Berry died in March and Fats Domino earlier this week. It’s inevitable, natural...
I was putting together his top ten list of Van Morrison songs during the week that Fats Domino passed away. The irony is that the song “Domino” is...
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Ani DiFranco was born in 1970 in Buffalo. She moved out of her parents’ house when she only was 15. Before that – when she was...
The first paragraph of the 1969 obituary of Coleman Hawkins in The New York Times puts him right where he belongs: Alongside Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington...
…and it’s a good thing. The David Scott Weaver Band performed last week before an audience of German Shepherds, Corgis, Labs, mutts and a few...
In the video above, Herbie Hancock explains to the audience and a rapt Elvis Costello the story behind the song “Watermelon Man,” which was a hit for him and...
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...
The singer Bedouine has quite a background: Azniv Korkejian – Bedouine – is of Armenian descent. She was born in Aleppo, Syria and grew up in Saudi Arabia. A...
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...
