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Hurt so good: The hundredth anniversary of the birth of a blues great
Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s foremost blues musicians. . . that you probably never heard of. He was born Robert Lee McCollum in Helena, Arkansas […]
Tournament of Rock II: The Legends … begins tomorrow
Tomorrow we launch Tournament of Rock II: The Legends, and we wanted to take a moment to lay out the ground rules and to explain how we set it up. Jim Booth […]
TunesDay: The best CDs of 2008, pt. 1 – the Gold LPs
Most years are pretty good for music if you know where to look, and 2008 was no exception. It’s a shame that you have to search so hard, of course – once […]
TunesDay: America singing 2: goodnight, Irene, goin' down to the crossroads…
Most music historians explain the origins of rock music as the gradual blending of Southern blues (both Mississippi Delta based acoustic style and Chicago electrified) with country/western music as codified by Nashville. […]
S&R succumbs to Listmania! Name the 10 greatest American musicians ever
The author of this post, who usually writes about national security and nuclear deproliferation, has decided that, for one day, he’d fiddle while Rome burns. No more immune to the passion for […]
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