HT: DW We see history far more fully than we hear it. We have plenty of shots of Abraham Lincoln and know precisely what he looked like from when he was a...
Tag - history of music
It must have been terrifying to be an artist in the Soviet Union during World War II. Classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich seems to have done the best he...
I knew when I began looking for links to Bucky Pizzarelli that I would find tons of great jazz guitar. Though it is impossible to say so definitely without...
There are brilliant writers and performers who work within a genre and produce something that has one foot — or even a toe or two — outside it...
H/T: Walter W. Before I heard them, the name My Morning Jacket suggested a proper and correct group of gentlemen who sipped tea and perhaps indulged in some...
Leadbelly — Huddie Ledbetter — is a legend. The outlines are contradictory: Leadbelly was a murderer who sang kids songs and became a bedrock of...
Running into music written and performed by an individual — Lorde — who is the same age (to be precise, 15 days older) than my youngest child is an...
I didn’t liked Elton John when I was young. Youth defend their cultural choices aggressively, and I was into The Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna and that...
Brazilian music has a unique and simple beauty. Here is how singer Anna Salleh’s profile starts at her site: Singer/guitarist Anna Salleh (pronounced...
Red Norvo had to be good: Being called “Mr. Swing” in an era in which swing was king suggests a tremendous amount of respect (or an extraordinary...
