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...
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“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...
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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...
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...