Listening to gospel as music comes with a bit of tension. Performances actually are part of a religious service. it also is a religion of which I am not an...
Tag - Aretha Franklin
The Queen of Soul was born on this day in 1942. Here is more on Ms. Franklin. The great clip above is from the show “The Midnight Special.” It...
The numbers in this single sentence in Wikipedia’s entry about Francesco Stephen Castelluccio — Frankie Valli — are a good illustration of...
CNN has an interesting piece about music and the inauguration, which is set for Monday. The show should be pretty good: This year’s festivities include a...
Aretha Franklin, Ricky Skaggs and others were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, according to The Tennessean. The paper said that other inductees...
Meet the Gospel HOF’s newest member. That makes two divas who the site featured today.
This is from This Day in Music.com entry for July 10, 1987: Producer and record company executive John Hammond died. He brought Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bob Dylan...
Reading Music
The stories of the great bands and musicians are fascinating. Musicians as a group are brilliant, but often troubled. The combination of creativity and drama makes for great reading.
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Here are some books to check out.
Duke Ellington brought class, sophistication and style to jazz which, until that point, was proudly unpolished and raucous. His story is profound. The author, Terry Teachout, also wrote "Pops," the acclaimed bio of Louis Armstrong. Click here or on the image.
What else is there to say? Here is the story behind every song written by The Beatles. Click here or on the image.
The Grateful Dead don't get enough credit for the profound nature of its lyrics. Many of the band's songs are driven by a deep and literate Americana ("I'm Uncle Sam/That's who I am/Been hidin' out/In a rock and roll band" and "Majordomo Billy Bojangles/Sit down and have a drink with me/What's this about Alabama/Keeps comin' back to me?").
David Dodd's exhaustive study tells the story, song by song. Click here or on the image.
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