Play button Why Louis Prima Was The Wildest Pre-Rock’n’Roll “Crazy Man”udiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring Those who’ve seen Disney’s 1967 animated movie, The Jungle Book, will recognise Louis Prima’s husky, elastic voice, even if they’re not remotely …
Bands The All-Female Big Bands That Made History During World War IINPR - Audie Cornish , Noah CaldwellDuring World War II, with thousands of men shipping off to war, half a dozen all-female, instrumental big bands toured around America. It was a rarity in a musical world dominated by men and, for the part,
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Is Not a Fan of You Taking His Photo OnstageRolling Stone - Andy Greene Bob Dylan has had a strict “no photos” policy at his concerts for years, but that’s rarely stopped fans from taking our their cellphones and trying …
Billie Holiday Strange Fruit: The most shocking song of all time?BBC Culture - By Aida AmoakoBillie Holiday recorded her iconic version of Strange Fruit on 20 April 1939. Eighty years on – in the first of our Songs that Made History series – Aida Amoako explores how a poem about lynching became
Play buttonMusic rediscover Big Bill Broonzy’s ‘The Big Bill Broonzy Story’udiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring It’s the midnight hour on Friday, 12 July 1957, and blues legend Big Bill Broonzy, 64, is ensconced in a Chicago recording studio laying down tracks …
Play buttonMusic ‘The Folk Singer’: Muddy Waters’ Tour De Forceudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers It is unquestionably one of the greatest blues albums ever made, including as it does one of the most evocative blues songs recorded during the …
Bob Dylan Bob Dylan in the Alley: The Alan J. Weberman StoryRolling Stone - Claudia Dreifus The coast looks clear for a fine afternoon among the garbage. Macdougal Street is almost empty of passers-by. The lights at Bob Dylan‘s house are …
Americana A-Z – Jesse Malinamericana-uk.com - Graham McCusker Alt-country has always had a reputation as being Americana’s brattish, bastard cousin. Despite having somewhat died a death in recent years, one of …
Music Nineties Country Singer Hal Ketchum Diagnosed With Alzheimer’sRolling Stone - Stephen L. Betts Singer-songwriter and Grand Ole Opry member Hal Ketchum, who had numerous hits throughout the Nineties including “Small Town Saturday Night,” “Hearts …
Songwriting Album Review – Emily Scott Robinson’s “Traveling Mercies”savingcountrymusic.com - Trigger From North Carolina, singer and songwriter Emily Scott Robinson has released a remarkable work of cutting autobiographical stories mixed with …
Music 'Songwriters Are Not Treated Fairly': Nile Rodgers On Streaming's Present And FutureNPR - Andrew FlanaganEarlier this week, a large group of successful songwriters sent Daniel Ek, the co-founder and chief executive of Spotify, a short and pointed letter in which they wrote of being "hurt and disappointed"
Play buttonMusic What Is Bebop? Deconstructing Jazz Music’s Most Influential Developmentudiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring What is bebop? The Big Apple certainly didn’t know what hit it when Charlie Parker blew into town like a tornado and shook the jazz scene to its very …
Music Muddy Waters Makes A ‘Long Distance Call’udiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton Songs about the telephone are part of the history of rock and pop. On 14 April 1951, Muddy Waters made the US R&B chart with one of the best blues …
Music Harry Smith And The Music of Mystical Godsudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers In 1950 the long-playing album was still a relatively new concept, one that a twenty-seven year old, discographer, artist and historian named Harry …
Play buttonMusic Official Film Of UK Record Store Day, ‘The Vinyl Revival,’ Now Availableudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton The official film of today’s (13) UK Record Store Day, The Vinyl Revival, is now available, as screenings of the documentary continue around the …
Jerry Lee Lewis John Lennon dropped big bucks at House of Oldies record storeNew York Post - By Hardeep Phull Any store would be thrilled to have a member of The Beatles browse their shelves. But when John Lennon would walk in to the West Village record store …
Northern California EASY ED’S BROADSIDE: Molly Tuttle’s Earliest Chaptersnodepression.com Considering that she is only a quarter-century old and just released her first solo album, one might suggest I could be jumping the gun on writing a …
Play buttonMusic The First Country Superstar – Hank Williamsudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers As Willie Nelson says, “Until Hank Williams came along it was just Bob Wills.” When Hank really did come along it was with the help of a white country …
Play buttonMusic ‘Empty Rooms’: When John Mayall Got A Case Of Folk-Bluesudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers It’s an album whose title is so redolent of the feelings that the blues can create. Empty Rooms is the second John Mayall album released in 1969 and …
Play buttonMusic Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Beck And More In Laurel Canyon Documentaryudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson, Beck, Jackson Browne and a host of other major artists are interviewed in the new documentary Echo …
The Arts The documentary the Rolling Stones didn’t want you to see still shockshoustonchronicle.com - By Chris Vognar, Staff writer You know it’s not your regular concert film when you can’t print the actual title in the newspaper. Then again there’s little regular about the …
Live Music Neil Young Announces Plans To Record New Album With Crazy Horseliveforlivemusic.com - Sam Berenson In a recent Q&A post on Neil Young‘s Neil Young Archives (NYA) website, the 73-year-old rock icon revealed that he will be getting back into the …
Play buttonBillie Holiday Billie Holiday: A Complex Woman, A Jazz Legendudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers Today, “legends” are ten a penny. When Billie Holiday was accorded the accolade it meant something. Lady Day was a brilliant singer, a great lyrical …
Music The Twanging Traditions Of ‘Country Bumpkin’ Cal Smithudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton It was a career that blossomed under the employment of country giant Ernest Tubb, and which eventually produced a Country Music Association Single of …
A music nerd's last stand: You'll pry my CDs out of my cold dead handsCNET - Erin Carson Commentary: In this chaotic world we live in, I seek order in the form of a tremendously large CD collection.
Country Music Morgan Wallen Has Officially Released His Unbelievably Good Jason Isbell Covertasteofcountry.com - Iesha Thomas Fans have to have it, and Morgan delivered.
Brooklyn, NY Fin folk: Arlo and Nora Guthrie to lead this year’s Mermaid Paradebrooklynpaper.com - By Julianne McShane Brooklyn Paper Cissy Van Kralingen / Courtesy of Rising Son Records Tina Tschirch / Courtesy of Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. Email to a friend Good …
Play buttonMusic ‘Old Town Road’ and the History of Black Cowboys in AmericaRolling Stone - Jonathan Bernstein When folk-singer Dom Flemons began delving into the cultural history of African-Americans in the West a few years ago, he conceived the subject as a …
Music (UK) From Here: English Folk Field Recordings Volume 2 review – unvarnished voices fire the formThe Guardian - Jude RogersIt’s not a coincidence that Stick in the Wheel decided to release their exploratory new anthology this month. This is a second volume of bare, field recordings made around Britain – Ian Carter and Nicola
Country Music 'We Clearly Have A Problem': Study Highlights Shortage Of Female Country Artists & Songwritersbillboard.com - Richard Smirke It might not surprise anyone working in Nashville, but country music remains very much a male dominated industry, according to a new study from …
