It’s that time of year again, time to spend those newly-acquired gift cards. Pop culture fans, like myself, may be looking to spend those cards on music and movies, so I am highlighting some recent releases worth considering. The Rolling […]
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When Ed Vadas, a lifelong performer, songwriter, actor, philosopher, storyteller, teacher, and a musician’s musician, passed away on Feb. 18 at age 71, he left behind legions of friends, a remarkable legacy, and oh so many memories. Originally from Worcester, […]
It’s impossible to define Richard Samet “Kinky” Friedman in a word or two, but maybe “a character” is the quickest summation. There are other words too, of course: musician, singer, songwriter, irreverent humorist, novelist, columnist, politician, cowboy, dog rescuer, pro-marijuana activist, […]
The blues are an inherently American music. Underappreciated by the larger listening audience here at home, the style didn’t truly flourish in the American mainstream until the British distilled it in the early to mid ’60s, basically reinventing it for […]
If Chuck Berry molded his music from his love of jazz, country, pop and blues, Bo Diddley, who moved from McComb, Mississippi, to Chicago in 1934, retained a gutbucket earthiness blending overtones of the rawest Delta blues with sounds of […]
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