All This Is That

By Jack Brummet This is kind of a mindf***er. Staples high school in Westport, Connecticut, in the early days of US touring rock, had co...

"Danny [Lanois] asked me who I’d been listening to recently, and I told him Ice-T. He was surprised, but he shouldn’t have been. A few...

By Jack Brummet, American Music History Ed. Thanks for the music, and rock and roll in general, Chuck. I wonder what people at the other...

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed. After Brian Wilson lost his way, his songwriting became, for a time, extremely bizarre.  This is probably one ...

By Jack Brummet Jazz Ed. Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra play Ain't Misbehavin' from what's called a mother record,or, me...

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By Jack Brummet, Music History Ed. I am posting this image because I just listened to Kurt's fascinating [you can't really call...

By Jack Brummet, American Music Ed. One of the great rock voices of all time. Karen Carpenter died on this day in 1983 from complication...

By Jack Brummet, Rock Ed. Some of my favorite Dead shows were from the dark time after Brent died and Bruce Hornsby joined the band for a...

By Jack Brummet The Posies played a fantastic show Saturday night at Seattle's Triple Door.  They were alternately fascinated to be pl...

By Jack Brummet, Rock and Roll Ed. We went to the great Posies show last night at the Triple Door in Seattle, celebrating the re-release ...

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed.  Woody Guthrie wrote these rulins' a/k/a resolutions in either 1941, 1942, or 1943, depending on who is ...

By Jack Brummet, American Music Ed. Reading American jazz clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow's biography  ' Really the Blues'  ton...

Kurt Cobain on the organ, circa mid 70's. ---o0o---

By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Ed. An article/interview with two of my favorite people , from Entertainment Weekly, almost ten year...

Waylon Jennings and Buddy Holly (and someone else's finger) in a Times Square photo booth.  A few months later on a tour, Waylon gav...

By Jack Brummet, CW Ed. Waylon Jennings' tribute to the Kings of Western Swing, Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys.   Interestingly, ...

By Jack Brummet, 70's Music Ed. A probably less than uplifting view of Mother's Day.  A couple years later, David Peele became fr...

By Jack Brummet, Jazz Ed. Air Conditioning is one of my very favorite Charlie Parker songs. I first heard it on a Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie ...

By Jack Brummet, Music Ed. I saw the Grateful Dead play in front of their wall of sound in Vancouver, B.C. in 1973.  It was amazing...