It’s obvious but important to note that popular music always has been controlled by the limits of the technologies used to record and deliver the music to its...
He went in and out of style while he was alive, but Johnny Cash now is an icon. Streissguth, a professor at LeMoyne College, has written extensively about Cash and country music.
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Here is a simple question: Why is Eric Clapton a great guitar player? To me, the right question isn’t “Why is Clapton great?” Instead, the question is...
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Baseball can be used to explain just about anything. Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton presents a problem that somebody who runs a music blog runs into once in a...
There are lots of superbly talented musicians. But most genres have a single focal point: The Beatles and Louis Armstrong are two examples. Jimi Hendrix fills this roll...
A couple of friends said that somebody asked to jam with him and he should spend the evening at their studio. How was he to know that the someone was Etta James?
Billie Eilish is a teenage who has made it big. It's very important to listen to what she is singing about.
Above is “Feel It Still,” a great song from the band Portugal. The Man. The oddest thing about the group almost certainly is its name. There are plenty of...
Earl St. Clair — actually Earl Johnson II — is a talented young singer, songwriter and producer. NPR has a brief story on St. Clair, who was born in...
This encyclopedic Bob Dylan site has the details on every song he wrote, including the last time each was performed and other minutia. The site has tons of other...
Above is a great video of Duke Ellington performing one of the most important jazz pieces ever, the beautiful “Mood Indigo.” John Lamb is the bassist and...
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