Skilled people aren't necessarily nice or moral people. Today many folks like to "cancel" people. Maybe the consumer doesn...

I enjoy listening to John Coltrane's piece "Giant Steps" but as I am not a musician or someone who understands much musical th...

The  song "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday" was specifically written for the Motown movie Cooley High and presumably...

Since the pandemic begun I've been listening to more old school original rock-n-roll, primarily though not exclusively created by Black ...

The song Since I Fell For You is a blues/jazz standard written by jump blues pianist Buddy Johnson. I was really only familiar with the Dina...

When you think about your career path, your romantic life or any other critically important life aspect do you ever have regrets? Do you t...

I am not a musician or an entertainment lawyer so I can't say with absolute authority that the song "I found a place in my heart...

I wrote before about Andre Williams here . He was one of the last of the old time rock-n-rollers/R&B giants. He just passed aw...

Pacific Gas & Electric,later known as PG&E after some unpleasant interactions with the utility company of the same name, was a lat...

I can't remember when I first heard this song. It might have been from my father's collection. But it is just as likely to have be...

I really like most of Joe Tex's work. I also like the Ray Charles-Betty Carter version of the standard "Baby It's Cold Outsid...

Nikki Giovanni Truth Is On The Way/Like A Ripple On A Pond Nikki Giovanni is a poet, writer, professor and activist among other things. ...

John Henry was a little baby, sitting on his papa's knee He picked up a hammer and little piece of steel Said "Hammer's gon...

Fats Domino was a founding father of rock-n-roll. He passed away at 89. My brother always joked that a lot of the classic rock-n-roll an...

None of Us Are Free is a song written by Brenda Russell along with the famed Brill building husband wife songwriting team of Barry Mann a...

(I've Been A Winner, I've Been A Loser) I've Been In Love Smith Connection I was listening to the Invictus box set again and...

If you don't like rap music or more precisely certain types of rap music does that mean that you don't like Black people. Well it ...

What a Little Moonlight Can Do ( as sung by Billie Holiday ) and Kitchen Man ( as sung by Bessie Smith ) are two classic blues/jazz songs....

In the Midnight Hour: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett by Tony Fletcher This was a gift from my brother. This is a beautiful book. As...

Ska, Calypso and Reggae are all interrelated forms of music. One of the original giants of calypso music, who was also influential in th...