Arts and Entertainment

One of Mike Dinsmore's 'Must-Includes':

Mike Dinsmore's fave R & B song.  Sung by, IMHO, the greatest soul singer of them all:

Mike Dinsmore brings you a point-of-view you don't often get in a song, but should:

We briefly interrupt Mike Dinsmore Week to bring you a song that, I hope, Mike Dinsmore would embrace and endorse.  The South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela ('Grazing In The Grass')…

  I've worked most my life at a prison nearby And I've raised two sons and a daughter I knew all along, as I watched them grow strong They had…

Mike Dinsmore Week commences.  Listening to Mike's choices, it's clear that he favors folk music of a political bent.  A broad palette of such songs.  We head north to Quebec…

A great band you never heard of: Coming next week: Mike Dinsmore gets his musical closeup!

This song just popped into my head and onto the intertubes:

Shoulda known that, once I took that detour to Muscle Shoals, I'd want to spend some more musical time there.  The Swampers ( Barry Beckett, keys; Roger Hawkins, drums; David…

When a perfect song comes into your head, why overthink it? Just put it up on the blog.  Written by Fenton Robinson (His 'I Hear Some Blues Downstairs' is a…

I admit I didn't follow the Cranberries. However, when we learned yesterday that lead singer Dolores O'Riordan had passed away, I checked 'em out. Turns out that I was missing…

By pure unadulterated coincidence, I just happen to be the producer for the upcoming (and almost sold-out) Tinsley Ellis show at the Arden Gild Hall. His combination of blues, soul…

We all know that, at their height, the Temptations featured two great lead singers--Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin. However, on this Smokey Robinson composition/production from 1963, Paul Williams does the…