How about some classic fun facts today? Here’s what’s on today’s menu… Be sure to visit Winslow, AZ before you leave this earth. Hand to God, there is a life size statue “standing on the corner” and sign, honoring the song and reference. The song reference generates more than 100,000 visitors each year, all taking […]
What can we say about 2016? It’s a leap year, a Presidential election year, a year to reflect on all the great singers and songwriters we’ve lost to the grim reaper. Here’s the calendar of loss thus far. April 24th – “Me and Mrs. Jones” Billy Paul April 21st – Prince April 6th – Merle […]
Here are your Monday morning music news headlines… Led Zeppelin has been entangled in a legal battle over copyright issues regarding the song “Stairway” with former Spirit member, Randy California. Randy claims a song he’d written a year before the Zeppelin classic (Led Zeppelin spent a summer opening up for the then more popular Spirit) […]
Bob Seger was born in Lincoln Park, Michigan in 1945. Bob’s double sided live “Silver Bullet Live” is considered a musical benchmark by at least three different music genres. Bob has sold more than 52 million albums in his career, earning seven multi-platinum albums while winning two Grammys along the way. “Mainstreet” the song was […]
The 70s rocked right? The Doobies, Zeppelin, Skynyrd, Fleetwood Mac were raking in millions from their hits. The flip side of that coin was the soul songs that also helped make the 70s one of the coolest decades ever. Okay, so there was Disco, but other than that seven-year mistake, the soul bands of the […]
Bob Seger’s dad walked out on his family when Bob was 10, which was a defining moment for Bob and his family, one that would influence him the rest of his life. We love Bob Seger, so it’s hard to rank his music, but we’re trying our best. Here’s part two of our favorite Seger […]
Rock and roll in the 70s was Southern, hard, Urban, and or California in nature, but we rarely salute the great Soul Rockers of the 70s. We’re going to take two days to recognize the incredible contributions of ‘Soul Rockers From the 70s.’ The Chicago born Earth Wind and Fire was so far ahead it’s […]
The Eagles will never have a reunion tour due to the recent death of Glenn Frey, besides original member Randy Meisner would probably be in jail for some reason. So, the next best thing would be to see Don Henley in concert. Much like Phil Collins and Genesis, Don was the drummer of a powerful […]
Let’s take a look at more cover songs coming from the rock genre. It’s been years and years so there are many songs we could talk about, but here are a few more… Rod Stewart’s “First Cut is the Deepest” originally by P.P. Arnold, but Cat Stevens wrote the song as a young song writer […]
‘This is Spinal Tap’ is the greatest rock and roll movie ever made. Let us tell you why and you’ll be backing us up on this for sure. The movie contains a pivotal scene in Cleveland, showing the rich knowledge of rock and roll for Alan Freed and honoring the city’s historic contribution to rock […]