Dolores Williams, aka LaVern Baker (with several name stops along the way, including “Little Miss Sharecropper”) became the second woman inducted...
Category - 1950s
A major force in Chicago, Carl Davis, has died at age 77. Here is part of the obituary in The New York Times: Though Chicago’s soul scene was less celebrated...
The passing last week of Andy Griffith led Phil Arnold, who runs ElvisBlog, to post an item on the links between the two icons. He described an appearance of...
Phil Phillips lone hit is one of the great songs of the rock era. Here is a version by Tom Waits that was used in a very good movie of the same name (which...
