Walter Horton, who also was known as Big Walter Horton, Mumbles Horton and Walter “Shakey” Horton, was a Mississippi-born harmonica player who lived from 1918...
Archive - March 2018
It seems like a good time to do something a little new. Please vote on your favorite three electric blues guitarists. If enough people vote, I’ll take...
Townes Van Zandt is a legendary singer songwriter. To some degree, he was the stereotype: A brilliant writer who was not hugely successful during his lifetime...
Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear is a mother and son duo out of Kansas City. Rolling Stone says that in a few months the two have gone from playing coffee houses...
The popular saxophonist Kenny G — Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (bet you didn’t know that) — was born on this day in 1956. Like Kevin Bacon, Kenny G...
An idea of the importance of William Christopher (W.C.) Handy is apparent in his nickname: The Father of the Blues. Handy was born in Florence, Alabama, in...
This is Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” played a student orchestra from the University of Indiana’s Jacobs School of Music. The...
Tony! Toni! Toné! was a pretty big R&B band back in the 1990s. I hadn’t paid much attention, except for thinking that it seemed to be a pretty bad...
There is lots of great music on WFUV, the Radio Station of Fordham University in The Bronx. And it’s all there to be reviewed at the website. This is a...
This Day in Music notes that today would have been Peggy Lee’s 95th birthday. Wikipedia says that Lee — Norma Deloris Egstrom – was a singer...
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