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Country is among the most popular music genres in the United States, with a market share of 10.7% in 2000, compared to 24.8% for rock music, nearly 13% for rap/hip-hop, 8% for pop, and just short of 3% for jazz (Benz, 2001). Country music has an even higher popularity rating when music fans are asked […]
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Are Kraftwerk the most influential group in pop history? Andy McCluskey of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark thinks so. “People always go back to how the American blues was lifted by the British and turned into pop in the Sixties, but that was a long time ago, and its reign was 20 or 30 years,” […]
Editorial note: We’ve no idea. We never met him. But we did sniff around on the Web and found this: Barry Moore, I’ve been reading extensively about the Beatles for a few years now. I definitely know more than the average …Answered March 8, 2015 According to Tony Barrow, who worked for The Beatles managing […]
Goodness where do you start! Loved the banjo BTW (I just bought a five string banjo and am enjoying it immensely though playing bluegrass and pete seger on it not Bach. Wonder if the tablature is available? Anyway: Anthony Lawrence King’s ‘Secrets of the semitones’ perhaps the finest performance I can think of of the […]
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BBC Radio 2 has chosen these 10 songs as ‘the soundtrack to British culture’ – from Dame Vera Lynn to Amy Winehouse and The Shamen. One is a wartime classic sung by a Forces Sweetheart. The other is an anthem to addiction and wasted talent.According to BBC Radio 2, We’ll Meet Again by Dame Vera […]
Tony Besgrove writes: GO TO 5.20 – Zakk tries his hand at Eddie Van Halen before launching into Star Spangled Banner à la Hendrix – killer guitar tone!
Having only heard the ‘Inspired by Bach’ CD plus whatever I’ve heard on the odd movie soundtrack, I was wondering if anyone can give me any pointers towards other albums to start with? There’s obviously the enormous 90 CD box set available but it seems quite a big leap for someone who hasn’t heard much, […]
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Timm Davison, studied Media Communication at University of Washington (2017)Answered Dec 24 In the past, lots of bands had what could be considered ‘bad’ second albums – and this was due as much to the way bands got signed, and what was expected of them in the ‘old’ (pre-internet) recording industry. In the ‘old’ system, […]
Tony Besgrove writes: How on earth can someone play like that? – just count the notes. Technique is out of this world, though the end result lacks a wee bit in the emotional stakes.
http://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2015/07/06/this-is-what-the-oldest-playable-harpsichord-sounds-like
Al I. Husain writes ….. This is an interesting question as my interpretation of the answer is people who intentionally left and/or voluntarily left rather being dismissed or succumbing to illness or death, which is also leaving I suppose, but not necessarily by someone’s own volition. I’m also trying to apply some measures around the […]
Something many of us have known for a long time, music brings people together. I am always dumbfounded when someone posts a topic entitled “leaving the hobby”! I just fail to get my head around this – What? You aren’t going to listen to music again? Okay, I know what some mean, they have reached […]
In a seven-part series, Guardian and Observer writers are trying to tell the history of modern music. Rounding everything off, today they pick out 50 key moments in the story of jazz – but what did they miss? Drug busts, razor-sharp tailoring and breathtaking musicianship: yes, it’s the turn of jazz, completing our seven-part history […]
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We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “Great guitar intro and band mix – feedback just in time..”
Alex Johnston, Bass & guitar, BA Hons in music theory, tech and musicology writes: Oh, but they did. Did they ever. You know the persistent rumour that there are unreleased Beatles tracks which are so crazy-ass off-the-wall that the band won’t let them be released? And that these tracks have been rumoured to be, at […]
Like great rivers, some voices go further, deeper, wider than others. Wrap them around a great song and they’ll take you places you don’t ever quite return from. Once heard, the voice of British folk-rock icon Linda Thompson is not forgotten. And like a river half-underground, half in spate, Thompson’s voice is all the more […]