The Beach Boys‘ Shut Down, in honor of what is happening in D.C. Also check out the Flogging Molly’s Don’t Shut ‘Em Down.
Category - Rock
I will let This Day in Music trace the barest outline of the extraordinary career of drummer Earl Palmer, who died at age 64 on this day in 2008: Worked with...
The influential band from Athens, Georgia was active from the 1980s until 2011. Here is the beginning of its profile at AllMusic: R.E.M. marked the point when...
ZZ Top was offered $1 million apiece by Gillette to shave their beards for a television commercial in 1984. The good news is that both lead guitarist Billy...
Bill Haley & His Comets’ Rock Around the Clock was the number one song for virtually the entire summer of 1955.
I don’t know much about Widespread Panic, other than they come from the same school of music — and are associated with — Phish and other...
After Midnight. TDMB featured J.J. Cale previously.
I will just list the names of the people I recognize. There no doubt are some I missed. Stevie Ray Vaughan Dick Dale (no, it’s not Joe Pesci) Annette...
I was surprised when one YouTube comment bemoaned the fact that The Moody Blues are not in The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I checked and it is so...
Mama Told Me (Not to Come) was number for the weeks of July 11 and 18, 1970. It may come as a surprise to some that the song was written by Randy Newman for...