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Features7 years agoFats Domino Knew All About Blue Mondays
‘Blue Monday,' the Fats Domino classic, made its first appearance on the Billboard Top 100 chart on January 5, 1957.
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News7 years ago
JD McPherson To Return In New Year
Widely-praised songwriter-performer JD McPherson will have his new album ‘Let The Good Times Roll’ released by Rounder Records on February 9, 2015.
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Features7 years ago
The First Rock ‘n’ Roll Tours
The first Rock 'n' Roll tours in the 1950s created the template for how bands and solo artists would tour for decades to come, and still do.
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Features7 years ago
Macon Georgia – Where The Streets have great names
There are streets in Macon Georgia are named after musicians including Little Richard and Duane Allman
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Features7 years ago
Put Another Nickel in the Jukebox
“We had these little juke joints, little taverns at that time. We called them Saturday night fish fries, they called ‘em juke houses.” – Muddy Waters
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Features7 years ago
When Radio Was Colour Blind
During the Great Depression in the early 1930s radio became the most popular means of entertainment in America. Radio from the very start was colour blind
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Features7 years ago
A Salute To Gerry Goffin
The death of Gerry Goffin on Thursday (19), at the age of 75, robs the world of one of the premier lyricists of the pop era.
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News7 years ago
Cliff Gallup, The Guitarist’s Guitarist
To devotees, especially his peers within the business, he was a pioneering guitar great, his name was Cliff Gallup, who was born this day, June 17, in 1930.
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Features7 years ago
Happy Birthday To R’N’B Singer Gary Bonds
One of the great R&B-inflected voices of the 60s, whose several career resurgences included a Bruce Springsteen-assisted comeback, turns 75 today.
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News7 years ago
Chuck Berry Awarded Polar Music Laureate
Chuck Berry is a 2014 Polar Music Prize laureate. The million kronor prize was founded by Stig 'Stikkan' Anderson, the publisher and manager of ABBA.
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Features7 years ago
Rock ‘n’ Roll From The Crescent City
New Orleans, known as The Crescent City, was the birthplace of jazz… and later home to some great rock 'n' roll
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Features9 years ago
28 January 1956, The Day Music TV Changed Forever
While many in the music business thought rock ‘n’ roll was nothing more than a passing fad there were others who thought it a deadly threat.
