Category Archives: Posts with Video
This Historic Day In Music: Once again… Louis Armstrong
This is a story about two Jazz musicians, two Country musicians and a Blues song. On July 11, 1930, a headline in the Los Angeles, California newspaper – the California Eagle – proclaimed: “Louie Armstrong Famed Record Artist in City.” The … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: Woodrow Wilson Guthrie – Take 3
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born on this day, July 14, in 1912. He was the third of five children of Charley and Nora Guthrie of Okemah, OK. It wasn’t long before family and friends started calling him “Woody.” Many years later, The Penguin Encyclopedia … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: Ringo Starr
On Saturday, August 18, 1962, at Hulme Hall in Port Sunlight, Birkenhead, England, Ringo Starr played his first official gig as the drummer for The Beatles. Part of what made Ringo the perfect person for the job was his voice. … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: Bill Withers
This past Spring, two of my best guitar students, N and A, learned the song “Ain’t No Sunshine” by Bill Withers. N, the singer/guitarist of this very talented duo was inspired to learn “Ain’t No Sunshine” from a YouTube video … Continue reading
Finding Covers – “Hold Back The Night”
Ah, records. Disc records were commercially produced starting in 1901. In 1910, a diameter of ten inches was established as the standard size and in 1925, the playing speed of 78 revolutions per minute became the norm. These mediums for analog … Continue reading
A Children’s Song
In the summer of 1970, I bought my first guitar – a chocolate-brown Harmony steel-string acoustic – and a songbook: Ramblin’ Boy and other songs by Tom Paxton. The only song in that slender 1964 Oak Publications publication that … Continue reading
A This Historic Day In Music Double Header: Maybelle Carter & “Wildwood Flower”
The first part of this post is a replay of a piece I wrote on May 11, 2010 under the title Yesterday In Music History. I’ve added the section about “Wildwood Flower” and an embedded YouTube “video” featuring the Carter Family’s … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: Robert Johnson
In 1961, Columbia Records released an album called The King of the Delta Blues Singers. The album, conceived by the legendary Columbia talent scout and record producer John Hammond (1910-1987), was a compilation of recordings originally made in 1936 and 1937 for … Continue reading
No. 4
April 18, 2010 to April 18, 2014. Four years. That’s how long it has been since I wrote my first post – “Hello, World” – and established a quote from Jelly Roll Morton – “Good music doesn’t get old” – … Continue reading
This Historic Day In Music: “Buck Dancer’s Choice” & “The Franklin Blues”
On Sundays, I like to listen to music when I do my morning exercise routine. (On weekdays, I listen to the news on NPR via NHPR.) Lately, I’ve been listening my way through an album I found on iTunes a … Continue reading
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