There are a great number of important musical birthdays at this time of year. Recently, The Daily Music Break posted on Junior Kimbrough and Ramblin’...
Archive - March 2018
David (Junior) Kimbrough was born on this day in 1930 in Hudsonville, Mississippi. Wikipedia says Kibrough’s two most noteworthy songs are “Keep Your Hands Off...
Wikipedia offers the impressive statistics that 19 musicians have been full time members of the progressive rock band Yes. Indeed, Stereogum’s Phil Freeman...
The Chemical Brothers are Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, high school friends who formed the band in 1989 in Manchester, England. The band, according to Wikipedia...
The use of America’s “A Horse with No Name” in the third episode of the second season of the show Breaking Bad was perfect. The clip above is not the highest...
Editors Note: This appreciate of the band X was submitted to the site by Morrie Bee, a visitor and newsletter subscriber. Bee sent several links. Above is...
We tend to cut and package eras of music into neat and discreet parts. That helps us understand more easily how things evolved, what the essence of each...
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...
Above is my daughter, Emily, performing yesterday. The guitarist is Basilio Georges, who Directs Flamenco Latino. They — and many other talented...
Listening to gospel as music comes with a bit of tension. Performances actually are part of a religious service. it also is a religion of which I am not an...
Reading Music
The stories of the great bands and musicians are fascinating. Musicians as a group are brilliant, but often troubled. The combination of creativity and drama makes for great reading.
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Here are some books to check out.
Duke Ellington brought class, sophistication and style to jazz which, until that point, was proudly unpolished and raucous. His story is profound. The author, Terry Teachout, also wrote "Pops," the acclaimed bio of Louis Armstrong. Click here or on the image.
What else is there to say? Here is the story behind every song written by The Beatles. Click here or on the image.
The Grateful Dead don't get enough credit for the profound nature of its lyrics. Many of the band's songs are driven by a deep and literate Americana ("I'm Uncle Sam/That's who I am/Been hidin' out/In a rock and roll band" and "Majordomo Billy Bojangles/Sit down and have a drink with me/What's this about Alabama/Keeps comin' back to me?").
David Dodd's exhaustive study tells the story, song by song. Click here or on the image.
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