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...

Debra Devi Jamification Station Volume 1 Decades ago I used to agree with some classical or jazz musical snobs ( critics and musicians ) tha...

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...

The Dead South is a Canadian band whose music can best be described as a satirical and earnest take on American/Canadian/British folk, blu...

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 don't watch a lot of television so I didn't know that Stephen Colbert was a fan of Chance the rapper, Gilbert and Sullivan patter ...

I hope the family gave him a big tip. It's always good to hear Beethoven. Some pizza delivery guys don't just deliver pizzas. A re...

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...

Tom Lehrer is a retired mathematician, satirist, parodist, writer, Army veteran, NSA agent and pianist. Among other things, he wrote music...

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. ...

S omeone I know on Facebook recently posted something along the lines of how she wanted a man who was rough enough to put her in her place...

Although I am something of a Billy Joel fan I hadn't heard this song until recently. "Laura" was on  The Nylon Curtain albu...

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...