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This Historic Day In Music: A Jazz Guitarist Was Born
A Jazz guitarist was born on this day, July 31, in 1931. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, this Jazz guitarist started to play at the age of 12. He was inspired to play guitar, instead of tenor sa… more →
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"Deep River Blues"
wrote 2 months ago: This past February, I wrote a post for this blog called “Songbooks & Sheet Music.” O … more →
This Historic Day In Music: Muddy Waters
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wrote 2 months ago: On April 4, 1915, McKinley Morganfield was born on the Kroger Plantation in Rolling Fork, Mississipp … more →
Happy Easter (and the Sargasso Sea)
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wrote 2 months ago: “Easter and the Sargasso Sea” is an acoustic guitar instrumental piece written and perfo … more →
This Historic Day In Music: Eric Clapton
wrote 2 months ago: Eric Patrick Clapton was born this day, March 30, in 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, England. Starting with … more →
Richard, Emmylou & Rodney
wrote 2 months ago: It’s a bit after 1:00 am and I just got back from a concert in Boston. My friend, Chris and I … more →
Something New
wrote 3 months ago: A little while back, I signed up for a free service from N.Y.Times.com that sends me “My Alert … more →
This Historic Day In Music: Doc Watson
wrote 3 months ago: Doc Watson was born this day, March 2, in the year of 1923 in Deep Gap, North Carolina. Doc is one o … more →
This Historic Day In Music: "God Blessed America"
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wrote 3 months ago: The day was February 23, 1940 and Woody Guthrie was in New York City. He’d arrived a few weeks … more →
Let It Snow!
wrote 4 months ago: “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” was written in July, 1945, in Hollywood, Califo … more →
A Belated Birthday Celebration
wrote 5 months ago: In the process of writing this post, I was feeling bad that I had not gotten my act together in time … more →
One Of The Best
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wrote 5 months ago: Once, we made mix-tapes on cassettes. (Compact Audio Cassettes, to be precise.) Then, we burned mix- … more →
Season's Greetings Again
wrote 5 months ago: Rock, Jazz, R&B. “What, no Folk?!? No collection of Christmas music is complete without a … more →
One More Season's Greetings
wrote 5 months ago: This has been fun. First Rock, then Jazz. How about some Christmas Rhythm & Blues? Here’s … more →
More Season's Greetings
wrote 6 months ago: So, it’s the end of a busy day. You’ve decked the halls, jingled the bells and harked th … more →
Season's Greetings
wrote 6 months ago: Need a little somethin’ to get you rockin’ on this Friday before the last weekend before … more →
Journalists Need Help Overcoming Stress
wrote 6 months ago: 12/19/12 – When I posted this article back in July little did any of us who live in or near Ne … more →
This Historic Day In Music: Charlie Christian
wrote 10 months ago: Jazz musician & electric guitarist Charlie Christian was born on this day, July 29, in 1916 in B … more →
This Historic Day In Music: Steve Goodman
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wrote 10 months ago: Some of the most fun songs that I’ve ever played and sung I learned from the recordings of Ste … more →
Two Iraqi Journalists The Latest Journalists Killed In Syrian Civil War
wrote 11 months ago: Two Iraqi journalists have been killed in the ongoing conflict in Syria. Falah Taha and Ali Juburi a … more →
