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This Historic Day In Music: John Winston Lennon
Seventy-five years ago today, on October 9, 1940, at 7:00 am in the Maternity Hospital on Oxford Street in Liverpool, England, John Winston Lennon was born. He was the first and only child of Fred and Julia Stanley Lennon. John … Continue reading
September’s Songs
On the sixstr stories calendar of historic days in music, no month has as many dates commemorating individual pieces of music than September. Here’s the list! (Happy listening!) September 4th On this date in 1962, The Beatles – 21-year-old John … Continue reading
On This Historic Day In Music: Columbia Records, PC 33795
“The release date is just one day. The record is forever.” Bruce Springsteen, 1975 Forty years ago today, on August 25, 1975, Columbia Records released Born To Run, the third album by the New Jersey-born, songwriter/singer/guitarist Bruce Springsteen. The song … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: “Blowin’ In The Wind” – Take 1
Bob Dylan wrote “Blowin’ In The Wind” sometime in late March/early April, 1962. He used the song “No More Auction Block” – a Civil War-era, African-American marching song/spiritual – as his starting point. (Dylan was a big fan of singer/guitarist … Continue reading
Wrestling With The Angel, Chapter 10
If you’re a new visitor to this blog, the purpose of my Wrestling With The Angel series (or category) is to highlight and share individual songs that are on a list of mine entitled: Devastatingly Great Songs. The title phrase, … Continue reading
The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King passed away yesterday, Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born Riley B. King on September 16, 1925 in Berclair, Mississippi, near the small town of Itta Bena. In 1950, while working as a DJ … Continue reading
Quotations Marked 5
“A guitar sounds good even if you drop it on the floor. A beginner can find music in the guitar that has escaped the virtuoso. It’s a magical instrument, constrained by a short range and a peculiar tuning, that produces … Continue reading
John Renbourn, Guitarist & Teacher
On Saturday morning, March 28, 2015, the “Today’s Headlines” email that I receive from The New York Times delivered this very sad news: “John Renbourn, Eclectic Guitarist Who Founded the Pentangle, Dies at 70.” According to the obituary by Jon Pareles, … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: McKinley Morganfield
“Well, my mother told my father, just before I was born I got a boy child comin’, gonna be a rollin’ stone, Sure ‘nough he’s a rollin’ stone.” From the song, “Rollin’ Stone” by Muddy Waters. Many years … Continue reading
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