I have nothing particularly original to say about Bruce Springsteen as a set up to a podcast interview with journalist Ryan White, whose coffee table book...
Category - Rock
It seems that a good amount of Beatles-related things happened on October 9. From This Day Day in Music History: 1940: John Lennon was born. 1965:...
I became aware of Andy Stein when I did a post last month on Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, of which he was a founding member. It turns out that...
As may be expected, a band that was formed in 1965 and still is touring has a complicated history, with lots of personnel changes, drama and, unfortunately...
Davy Knowles is a 27-year-old blues/rock guitarist from the Isle of Man who has the right guitar heroes: Three are mentioned at the beginning of the profile at...
The Reuters obituary was pretty much right on the mark, quite an achievement considering that it was printed just a few hours after Janis Joplin died on...
Bombino is Goumour Almoctar, a musician who was born in Tidene, Niger, on January 1, 1980. He is member of the nomadic Ifoghas tribe, which part of the Tuareg...
For a band of some importance, there is almost no decent video of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. The vintage clip above looks like it was shot...
The invaluable site bobbobst.com tells us that the top song on this day in 1998 was Steve Winwoods “Roll With It.” Here is more on Winwood, who...
I vaguely remember that Bill Wyman played bass in a band that was popular decades ago. They had some pretty big hits, as I recall. They say that the fellows...