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60 years ago today, Columbia Records releases the 3rd album by Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’. Though somewhat overlooked in his catalogue, some of his most important songs can be found here, from the title track, to the sublime “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” “Ballad of Hollis Brown,” “One Too Many Mornings,”…
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47 years ago today, David Bowie releases the exceptional Low, an album so sonically unique, it can’t become dated. Eight songs 3:00 and under on side 1, with four soundscapes on side 2. Bowie did next to nothing to promote the album, though a promo video exists for “Be My Wife,” a song that would…
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57 years ago today, one of the great releases of all time: The Rolling Stones release the double A-Side “Ruby Tuesday” b/w “Let’s Spend the Night Together.” The bigger hit would be “Ruby Tuesday,” but “LSTNT” would hit the Top 10 in many countries, and have a better story to boot. The now infamous performance…
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The biopic The Joker Is Wild is better remembered these days than the man being portrayed by Frank Sinatra. That man is Joe E. Lewis, born 122 years ago today in The Bronx. Joe was a successful nightclub performer in the 40’s, 50’s & 60’s, known mainly as a comedian, though his earliest success came…
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It’s a big day for the charts, Billboard and Cashbox, on this day in 1964. For it was on this day that ‘Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash,’ became the first album to hit #1 on the newly created Top Country Albums chart in Billboard Magazine. The Columbia Records album was a compilation of…
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The great Bo Diddley wrote the now legendary “Who Do You Love,” though Bo’s original didn’t have much success, never charting. While widely known as a Bo Diddley song, it is not set to the Bo Diddley Beat. Most covers have incorporated it though. George Thorogood’s famous version didn’t chart either, but it is a…
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Born 80 years ago today, in Heston, Middlesex, England, the definition of Guitar God: James Patrick JIMMY Page. Exemplary lead guitarist. Riff King. Master Melodicist. Early on in his time as a wildly successful session guitarist in London (see today’s playlist), Jimmy obtained a copy of ‘In Concert,’ the 1962 live album by Joan Baez.…
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Two titans of culture, born on this day, one in 1935, one in 1947. Both influential by levels that can never be satisfyingly described. One hugely influenced by the other, going so far as to custom-write “Golden Years” for the other. One sadly stuck having to live up to a persona he couldn’t escape, at the…
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