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H/t to RE Vanella, who pointed out that yesterday would have been Pete Seeger's 100th birthday. In addition to playing a key role in the 20th century folk music revival,…

Everybody knows the various Rick Derringer versions of his rock standard, but its first appearance on vinyl (that's all we had back then, kids) came on "Johnny Winter And," the…

Back in the '60s it took a long time for the older generation to realize that rock and roll was, as the saying goes, here to stay. As late as…

In El Somnambulo's roundup of his favorite tunes from April, he wondered if Craig Finn was the Raymond Carver of songwriters. I'm not sure about that. I might go with…

The Click Five was a power pop band founded in the mid-aughts in Boston, where most of them attended the Berklee School of Music. They scored a hit right out…

I love covers that expand the original. I love harmonizing girl groups. And I love Tracy Chapman's "Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution" as deconstructed and re-imagined by British indie folk-pop trio…

Another video by the New Orleans outfit that put musicians in the back of mule-drawn carriages in the French Quarter for acoustic sets on wheels. This time it's the Wood…

I don't know what Our Man in New Orleans has on his agenda, but he'd be a fool to pass up a chance to see this homegrown Crescent City band…

This is Van Morrison's best soul rave-up since "Jackie Wilson Says." It was originally recorded in 1980 but wasn't released until Van re-recorded it for 1990's "Enlightenment." At this tempo…

I was reading about Ed Sullivan the other day and came across a tidbit I never heard before. I knew the legendary variety show host was known for holding grudges…

When Charles Bradley was discovered by Daptone Records around the turn of the millennium, he was nearly 50 years old and performing a James Brown impersonation as Black Velvet. (Earlier…

Though there are enough weed anthems to make a playlist that lasts 4 hours and 20 minutes, my favorite is Ben Harper's Jamaica-flavored proclamation of the freedom to fire up.…