Directly below are parts one and two of The Daily Music Break’s interview with Philip Clark about Dave Brubeck. In the post is an audio-only version of the...
He went in and out of style while he was alive, but Johnny Cash now is an icon. Streissguth, a professor at LeMoyne College, has written extensively about Cash and country music.
I recently conducted a Zoom interview with reggae authority John Masouri. When it ended, I said goodbye and moved to the always dramatic step of seeing if the...
The Daily Music Break presents a short video each week on a music video of note. Embedded video and podcasts can’t contain copyrighted audio, so above is...
Indeed, that phrase comes up in an interview The Daily Music Break did last week with Meryl Danziger, the author of “Sing It! A Biography of Pete Seeger,” a...
Clearly, when great guitarists talk about other great guitarists – and ones that influenced them – SRV’s name comes up quickly. It also comes through that he was...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a huge toll on the musical community. Some of the victims are well known and some obscure. Following is what certainly is a small...
The easiest way to assess the importance of The Wrecking Crew is simply to glance at list of the songs to which they contributed. It’s below and it’s pretty stunning...
“Deuce and a Quarter” is a 1996 video featuring Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Elvis Presley sidemen Scotty Moore and DJ Fontana and others. The occasion was a session for...
A lot of this seems to be about myths. Writers of antiquity — at least those whose work still is important — created myths. It’s interesting that Dylan...
There is something inherently dishonest and just plain rotten in a politician’s use of a song without the permission of the artist or band. The Trump campaign...
In part one of a two-part conversation with TDMB, Professor Thomas makes a compelling case that Dylan is a genius who carries on in the tradition of Homer, Ovid and...
My attraction to Doc Watson goes deeper than his guitar playing. There are lots of superb players, many of whom I enjoy. Obviously, Watson is at the top of the heap in...
Malcolm John (Mac) Rebennack Jr. — Dr. John — was an American original who inhabits a special place in our musical heritage. He lived from November...
The Daily Music Break recently launched “Beyond YouTube: The Internet Music Mapping Project.” Going forward, we will talk to folks associated with...
Below is Art Blakey’s Jazz Messenger’s live performance of Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night in Tunisia,” as posted on YouTube by Art Jazz1. The video (without audio) is...
It’s obvious but important to note that popular music always has been controlled by the limits of the technologies used to record and deliver the music to its...
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver, one of the most important jazz musicians of the twentieth century, was born on September 2, 1928 and died on June 18, 2014. Chris...
Millions of words have been written about The Grateful Dead. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a band that is more of a lightning rod in a way that is to a great...
Baseball can be used to explain just about anything. Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton presents a problem that somebody who runs a music blog runs into once in a...
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