The Daily Music Break is going to publish an eBook entitled “Beyond Boundaries: Great Music Beyond Eras and Boundaries” next week. The eBook...
Category - Rock
Blitzen Trapper, a band from Portland, OR, has been around since 2000. The high point was a two page feature in Rolling Stone in 2008. The band seems to be on...
The seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day (my dad was at Omaha Beach) and the deaths of Leon Redbone and Dr. John got me thinking about the passage of time. A...
“All Down the Line,” a great Rolling Stones song, probably is in the band’s second tier in terms of popularity and recognition. It’s...
Bonnie Raitt is closely identified with the great John Prine song “Angel from Montgomery.” There are quite a few versions of it on YouTube...
This post initially appeared at The Daily Music Break. It’s been edited and expanded a bit. It’s ironic that Harry Nilsson, a songwriter of great renown...
Here’s a nice song about uselessness and the end of everything. This is what David Byrne had to say about “Road to No Where” as quoted at...
When I used to go to bars frequently–this is a long time ago–once in a while a band would rise above the very respectable, predictable and often...
“Check It Out” is a new and frequent feature pointing to good music found on the Internet. Chuck Berry was a hit machine who was one of the...
This is a very sad story. Ironically, it started as a funny anecdote about a person’s last few hours. One of rocks legendary feuds is between Ginger...