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By the time Rick Rubin saw Johnny Cash & June Carter perform “It Ain’t Me, Babe” at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert in October 1992, Cash’s career was all but stalled. He had no record contract, following a 5 year deal with Mercury Records, his label following nearly 30 years on Columbia. Johnny made…
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48 years ago today, five years to the day after releasing Sticky Fingers, the Rolling Stones release Black and Blue. It’s far from their greatest album, but it’s one I return to every now and then. Here’s my original copy, with that beautiful custom label with the photo of the moon above Sanibel Island in…
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“And now, The Voice of the New York Yankees, John Sterling.” Suzyn Waldman would end her pregame remarks with this simple introduction for her radio play-by-play co-host John Sterling. After 35 years in the booth, John Sterling called it a day yesterday. In his 1st 30 years on the job, from Opening Day 1989 to…
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I don’t have much to blog about today. I suppose I could point that 57 years ago today, Frank & Nancy are at #1 for the first of four weeks with the single “Somethin’ Stupid.” To date, they are the only Father/Daughter combo to score a #1 single. It’s a beautifully engineered recording. The string…
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He began as a guitar player, the lead guitarist actually, for the Washington, D.C. Rhythm and Blues band The Triumphs by the time he was 15. The rhythm guitarist was a friend of his, another aspiring local musician a couple of years older, a kid named Jorma Kaukonen. Jack on guitar in 1958, courtesy of…
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“Well, sometimes there’s people, and sometimes there ain’t.” Phil and Dave Alvin were 15 and 17 respectively when this was said to them, as a form of mentoring, by an artist they’d first met in the very late 60’s in Los Angeles. The Alvin’s sat at his feet while he performed, picked his brain, sang…
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One of the best things about Bob Dylan’s recently wrapped Rough and Rowdy Ways tour was the location-centric covers he played. Over the course of three shows in Chicago, for example, he performed Nick Gravenites’s “Born in Chicago,” as well as Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters songs. In Austin, Texas just a couple of nights…
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She was born Eleanora Fagan 109 years ago yesterday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her incredibly difficult upbringing is well documented, with a largely absent mother, spells in reform school, altogether dropping out of school at age 12, and working as an assistant in a brothel, all before turning 14. Her first love of music came from…
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50 years ago, Miles Davis released the album Get Up With It. It’s far from his best known album, though unfairly so. It is largely made up of unreleased recordings held back from early 70’s albums like On The Corner and Jack Johnson. Get Up With It is all over the place stylistically, with Worldbeat,…
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The Revols was a cover band out of Startford, Ontario. They were The Rebels but changed the name to The Revols, deferring to Duane Eddy and The Rebels. The band opened for Ronnie Hawkins and The Hawks in 1960, at which time The Hawk said to Levon Helm, “See that kid playing piano? He’s got…
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