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Today's Trivia: Songwriters
by Rick L.
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August 17, 2008 03:07 AM EDT -- Linda Ronstadt and, later, Terri Clark, have had hits with the song "Poor Poor Pitiful Me". Who wrote it? more
October 05, 2006 08:27 PM EDT -- Note: This article, in edited form, will be included in an upcoming book edited by G. Brown, about the history of Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre. I can point to several reasons for why I became . . . more
Beatles Memories
by Paul L.
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August 05, 2006 12:32 AM EDT --   The Beatles music carried us from humble roots to elements that were quite contrary, if not alarming at times in contrast to a short decade before. They had a style about them for trying new things, . . . more
1966 Scrapbook
by Paul L.
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August 06, 2006 08:43 PM EDT -- The summer of 1966 was a hot one and we didn't have air conditioning in them days because we could not afford it. It was a luxury for only a select few people out in this part of the country. The weather . . . more
September 24, 2006 01:01 PM EDT -- U2 fans have waited years now for a DVD version of the "Under a Blood Red Sky" documentary, which was film in May, 1983 at Red Rocks Amphitheater outside of Denver. The VHS version is itself . . . more
October 27, 2006 01:40 AM EDT -- Happy 5th birthday to the iPod. I was kind of slow to get on the bandwagon, mostly because it was (and still is, although not as much) so damned expensive to join the iPod club. But like a lot of people, . . . more
December 08, 2006 03:23 AM EST -- Who is your favorite Southern Rock band ? Put down that fried chicken and check these out! The Allman Brothers Band Brother Cain The Black Crows Blackfoot The Marshall Tucker Band Government Mule . . . more
September 26, 2006 07:42 PM EDT -- Think "ukulele" and you'll invariably get a quaintly exotic image in your head (and the wrong pronunciation – it's "oo-koo-leh-leh," not "you-koo-leh-leh"): . . . more
August 18, 2008 01:43 PM EDT -- Whose help did Ray Stevens ask for, when he felt like feeling sorry for himself?. more
August 26, 2006 01:14 PM EDT --  <basefont>Rounding the corner I could see that they were already open, and I would have to battle my way through the garage among a crowd of people. If I hadn't had to wait for my friend . . . more
October 15, 2007 10:29 PM EDT --  ZZ Top, better known as " That Little Ol' Band From Texas " , was formed in 1969. The band consisted of Billy Gibbons on guitar, Dusty Hill on bass and Frank Beard on drums. Prior . . . more
May 18, 2006 04:42 PM EDT -- Back in June, I purchased a copy of the "30th Anniversary" edition of King Crimson's album, Three of a Perfect Pair.    (Even though it hasn't been literally thirty years since . . . more
May 12, 2007 07:03 PM EDT -- Leonard Cohen is perhaps one of the most accomplished songwriters of his generation. He is  certainly one of the most neglected. What follows are the lyrics to his 1988 song, First We Take Manhattan. . . . more
September 27, 2006 09:04 AM EDT -- The Japanese are crazy about anything Western, especially anything American, right? It's true in many ways and on many levels, but one of my passions as a pop-culture critic has been to note how Americans . . . more
August 04, 2006 07:53 AM EDT --   John R. Cash was born on 26 February 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, moving to Dyess, a farm colony in the North Eastern part of that State with his family in 1936 as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's . . . more
September 26, 2006 09:19 PM EDT -- Pitchfork has published a rambling list of the "200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s," beginning with the Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" at 200 and the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" . . . more
September 12, 2007 03:39 PM EDT --     Earlier this year, I got a copy of the album Celtic Treasure, the latest from musician and Gather member Hayley Westenra.  My first thought, when I saw the song title “Parsley, . . . more
September 24, 2006 03:02 PM EDT -- I grew up – like all baby boomers – during an era of radio when the Top 40 format was perfected during the first two decade of rock and roll, genres didn't divide up into separate formats. . . . more
April 13, 2006 05:16 PM EDT -- I know this will be rather controversial, but I'm not the only one who slightly regrets the advent of MTV. (My favorite culural joke is the term "empty-Vee.") The Buggles only got it half-right. . . . more
November 26, 2006 10:45 PM EST -- It took the urging of Cirque du Soleil, the acrobatic dance performance group, to bring the music of the Beatles – the most iconic of 1960s baby boomer musical catalogs -- into the 21st century. . . . more
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