The New Riders of the Purple Sage were one of the bands that came out of the San Francisco scene in the 1960s. Indeed, Grateful Dead people are all over the...
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Here are two absolute greats: pianist Leon Russell and guitarist J.J. Cale. Cale is one of Eric Clapton’s favorite guitarists and has a big fan in Neil...
Michael Streissguth on Johnny Cash: Michael Streissguth is the author of “Johnny Cash: The Biography,” “Johnny Cash at Folsom...
Jack Grace, who the site posted on a few weeks ago, is both a serious musician and an absurdist. He runs The Jack Grace Band and Van Hayride, a country...
Two weeks ago, The Daily Music Break posted about country singer/songwriter Dan Weber. We chatted with Dan a few weeks ago. Check out the podcast — and...
Bruce Eder’s profile of Albert Lee at AllMusic sums it up pretty well. Lee, he writes, is ” who people don’t remember as easily as some of the higher...
Being the son or daughter of a celebrity seems to be a particular burden. Especially if the parent is extremely famous and if the kid goes into the same line...
For a band of some importance, there is almost no decent video of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. The vintage clip above looks like it was shot...
[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...
Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra’s operatic “Ghost Riders in the Sky” was number one the Billboard charts during this week in 1949. The song...