MetroNews, a site in West Virginia, posted an interesting feature this week on the premiere of a documentary about old time music in and around Clay County...
The sense from “Feel Good Blues” is that this was the Count Basie Band just having a whole of fun. There are smiles all around and Basie talks over...
There is confusion between two sources on when Nina Simone’s debut album, “Little Girl Blue,” was released. On This Day in Music says that it...
Things sometimes have a nice way of coming full circle. Some time ago, my daughter suggested that Tank and the Bangas would be a good subject for a post at...
I’ve often wondered how “Americana” is distinguished from other genres of American music. The answer seems to be that the powers-that-be have...
Taj Mahal is a national treasure. Two albums of his that I recommend are “Giant Steps”/”The Old Folks at Home” and “Ohhh So Good...
The last three paragraphs of this post were published a few years ago, though I changed them to not look odd after Dr. John’s death. With some...
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...