I have been listening to London Calling - the Clash's 1979 breakout album - on my morning drive recently, and wanted to blog about how fresh it still seems after 30 years. In fact, it's hard to believe that it was 30 years ago that I was first entranced by the hypnotic sounds of the title track...
When Clinton Heylin writes about Bob Dylan , people listen. His biography Dylan: Behind the Shades , not only dug deeper than any other biographer or Dylan enthusiast, the painstaking detail of his scholarship was obvious. So having the chance to get my hands on the first of a projected two-volume opus...
Did you know that they lived in Louisville? No t far from here! Margot Theis Raven relates the story of the sisters who wrote the words and music in 1889 and 1890, as one of the many songs that Patty Hill used to teach her kindergarten children. She came up with the words to the songs, and her sister...