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8 Best Song Intros Ever
These are the songs you wanted the disk jockey to shut up so you could hear from the start: 8. “Come Together”, The Beatles You...
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Johnny Rivers
Okay, Johnny Rivers was the King of Covers. Granted. But does every recording act have to only sing original songs? What about the...
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Woodstock
While probably 500,000 people actually attended Woodstock, probably ten times that number of hippie/yuppie/boomers now tell folks they were...
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“Purple Haze”
This is one of those things that make you go, “Hmm.” “Purple Haze” was a groundbreaking single written by Jimi...
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Dick Dale, Surf Music Pioneer
You may remember Dick Dale from the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. That rapid staccato guitar playing...
Read MoreAmericana: Fender Guitars
Picture Leo Fender in his California electronics workshop in the late 1930s. Fixing phonographs, radios, and public address systems....
Read MoreAlbum: "Are You Experienced"
You know that feeling you get when you hear unknown music and you think, Wow. This changes everything. That’s the reaction I had upon...
Read MoreAmericana: The Apollo Theater
In 1914, a new building was constructed on 125th Street in the Harlem section of New York City. Named “Hurtig and Seaman’s New...
Read MoreSinger: Jimi Hendrix
Time has allowed us to get a little perspective on this comet that briefly blazed across the rock and roll firmament. He was one of those...
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