Here are ten fun music facts for the week of June 22: After graduating from college, Jimmy Buffett worked as a reporter for Billboard in Nashville and broke...
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New Orleans has a genius for producing great food and great trumpet and cornet players. Indeed, Louis Armstrong — who Wynton Marsalis pays homage to...
London Metropolitan University has released a study on what types of music are best – and worst – for driving safety. Each of the ten safest songs has a tempo...
Here is The New York Times obituary and a nice piece at NPR about Ravi Shankar, who died today at age 92. A previous post containing a clip of Shankar on The...
This morning, I posted an item about Norah Jones. Jones, I learned yesterday, is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. Here is dad at work…
I had no idea that Norah Jones is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. It was the most surprising thing I’ve learned since starting this...
Bonnie Raitt, usually an electric slide player, shows her versatility in the clip above. Raitt started her tour this week and has a new album, Slipstream. She...
