This Day in Music reports that today is the 50th birthday of Edie Brickell. Brickell, who is married to Paul Simon, had a big hit with “What I Am,”...
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“Charmer” is a good song (here are the lyrics) and a the video is very clever and funny.
Here is more on Aimee Mann.
Nothing to add to everything that has been said during the past 24 hours about David Bowie. He was a very funny guy as well. This is making the rounds on...
Jamestown, NY, native Natalie Merchant was a member of 10,000 Maniacs from 1981 to 1993. The singer, songwriter and instrumentalist has been a solo artist...
Marketers are smart people, and know when they hear a song that will work in a television commercial. There are a few types ways to go, it seems. Using well...
Ian McFeron is a singer/songwriter from Seattle. He currently is working on his eighth album, the third with producer Doug Lancio, who also has produced for...
Kate Bush, Madonna and Michael Jackson were born within a month of each other during the summer of 1958. Bush made more of a name for herself in Great Britain...
Wikipedia offers an extraordinarily precise — some would say anal — explanation of the genesis of the name of Fountains of Wayne: The band was...
Katie Melua is a Georgian singer who was born in 1984. Her family moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland when she was eight years old and to London six years later...
It has also been reported that Motown was interested in signing Aretha back in the days when it was a tiny start-up. Ultimately, however, Franklin ended up...
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.