Jazz trombonist, guitarist, composer and arranger Eddie Durham was born on this day in 1906. An excerpt from Wikipedia’s profile: He was the co-composer...
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HT: EW Here is Joss Stone singing The Impression’s great “People Get Ready.” Here is more about the song and here ex-Impression is Curtis...
HT: DW My son showed me this, which is “Shelter Song” by Temples. The music and the video pretty obviously show that the band was trying to sound...
This Day in Music relates that on August 13, 1952 Big Mama Thornton recorded Leiber and Stoller‘s “Hound Dog” which, of course, subsequently...
Last week, The Daily Music Break posted a clip of Chubby Checker singing — and dancing — “The Twist” on the 50th anniversary of his...
Wikipedia’s profile of the Indigo Girls – Amy Ray and Emily Sailiers – says that the two met in elementary school and have performed together since they were...
This Week in Music reports that on this day in 1960 Chubby Checker appeared on American Bandstand and performed “The Twist.” The YouTube link has a...
I am not a critic or a musician, but think that the pure and clean tone of Hubert Laws is tremendous. Perhaps not quite as well known as Herbie Mann, Laws, who...
Charlie Shavers would have turned 95 years old today. Shavers, a jazz trumpet player who performed with all of the greats of his era, died at the young age of...
The first idea for this post was to cover a genre that had yet to be posted at the site. One of those is the barbershop quartet, and I found a version of...