Lawrence Juber is one of my favorite guitarists (MIB Interview here; a few songs we recorded here). He was Paul McCartney’s...
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1. Mariah Carey Bob Dylan looked up to Woody Guthrie, today’s nitwits admire Mariah Carey. That’s right, she hit almost three...
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This is a beautiful version of this song – and it works well as a protest anthem Who March the World? Girls. Via Samantha Bee
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My frame of reference for this song — the benchmark for duet of this song — is Ella & Louis, but I found this short, live...
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He’s the drummer you always see on TV, with the bald head and the sunglasses, hitting ’em hard and having the time of his...
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I have been really enjoying this 8 part series on the process of recording music via PBS: Music has been a constant in human...
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The holidays are a bitch. It’s the same media disconnect we experienced with the election. The stories say one thing, the truth is...
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I have featured some amusing Hanukkah music before — see the Maccabeats here and here; 6thirteen doing “Shake it...
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Bruno Mars is one of the world’s biggest music stars and he’s one of the most driven people we’ve ever seen. Just 31, he’s the...
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Some of my all-time favorite albums are the duets of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong — they are delightful contrasts of his...
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