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This Day in History – May 14, 1853 – Gail Borden applies for a patent for making condensed milk!

On May 14, 1853 Gail Borden applied for a patent for condensed milk. Now that makes sense, since the name everyone associates with condensed milk is Borden! But I must admit that I had no idea that the inventor of condensed milk was Gail Borden. Not only was Mr Borden …

This Day in Music – April 8, 1968 – Petulia and an Interracial Touch – Oh My!

On this date April 8th in 1968, (there’s that tumultuous year again only four days after the assassination of Martin Luther King) ) NBC aired Petula Clark’s TV Special, aptly named “Petula”. One of the guests on the show was the great Harry Belafonte. Belafonte and Clark were to perform a duet …

This Day in Music – Brewer & Shipley's "One Toke Over the Line" Enters the Charts!!

So on this day in 1971 Brewer & Shipley’s “One Toke Over the Line” entered the charts and eventually spent 14 weeks on the charts, and climbed all the way to # 10 during April 1971 (#5 in Canada). I always knew those Canadians knew good music!! Anyway here’s a post …

Mandolin Picker Jethro Burns born March 10, 1920!

Jethro Burns of Homer & Jethro one helluva good mandolin picker!! On this day in March 10th in 1920 “Jethro”Burns was born in north Georgia. When he was young his family moved to,Tennessee Since Jethro passed away in 1989, many of you young whippersnappers may not know of him, but Jethro …

This Day in Music – March 5, 1951 – The First Rock"n" Roll Recording?? – "Rocket 88"

So on this date March 5, 1951 several months before I was born, Ike Turner recorded the song “Rocket 88″ a song that many musicologists regard as the first rock”n” roll record!! The song was recorded for Sam Phillips at his Memphis Recording Service, which would later become Sun Records, …

New Jazz from Saxophonist Vincent Herring – The Uptown Shuffle!!

So the other day I wrote about the great Dexter Gordon, today I’ll move to a contemporary saxophonist, but still a great one – Vincent Herring. I’ve been listening to Herring’s latest release The Uptown Shuffle for a couple of weeks now and I think I like it more and more …

The Budrows – The Budrows!

100% Foot Stompin’ Cigar Box Rock n’ Roll from Laguna Beach’s – The Budrows! So I like musicians like Seasick Steve and Ben Prestage and others, who make music on handmade instruments. Now you can add the name Jason Farthing to that list. Jason is one-third of the band The …

Book 5 of 2014 – Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin – Gerard Helferich

Ok so which of these men do you recognize?? I know that I would probably have a hard time identifying any of them. Each of these four men disrupted American politics between the years 1865 to 1912. Three were successful in their assassination …

Rod Picott – Hang Your Hopes on a Crooked Nail!

Rod Picott has been friends with Slaid Cleaves since they first met in the 2nd grade in the Maine town of South Berwick where they both grew up. Slaid left South Berwick went to Tufts University and eventually ended up moving to Austin, Texas with wife Karen in 1991, where …

Norway's Christina Skjolberg – Come and Get It

So right now Christina Skjolberg may be one of Norway’s best kept secrets, but after this years Blues Caravan Tour rolls across Europe and around the world she may not be. Skjolberg is a dynamite blues woman who Ruf Records has signed and released her début album Come and Get …

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