Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
Ninety years ago, on August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law so as to provide a basic social safety net that would be of broad benefit to the general public. Social Security not only protects vulnerable populations — the elderly, the young, those
Larry Adler became a “professional” musician in the eyes of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) when he joined Local 47 in Beverly Hills, where he lived, on July 10, 1948. As the front page of Billboard‘s July 17, 1948 edition reported in deadpan fashion — “Adler Now Rates” [see
A friendly shout out to Scooter “The Music Computer” Magruder, WPFW radio host and general manager of Silver Spring’s Roadhouse Oldies, who has labored tirelessly to promote the most salient aspects of our shared musical heritage. My recent album purchases at Roadhouse Oldies affirmed yet again that plenty of interesting
The Guerrillas‘ “Lawdy Rolla” is a King reissue of a European single on Polydor. Points out the YouTube contributor who posted this audio clip: “Traditional worksong recording [from] Alan Lomax’s Negro Prison Blues & Songs – ‘Early in the Mornin” http://youtu.be/lw6GFCupesI US ish (issue) of a French Congo acoustic RnB/Jazz
Joe’s Record Paradise – thankfully – is only moving up Georgia Avenue a few blocks. Formerly Champion Billiards – at dusk On my last visit to Joe’s I picked up The Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll – the lone music history title in
Nice deep country bass sounds on this YouTube stereo mix of Dick Curless‘ mighty working man jukebox tale – “Jukebox Man” – that was released February 1971 on the heels of trucker classic, “Drag ’em Off the Interstate Sock It To ’em J.P. Blues” “Jukebox Man“ Dick Curless (1971) Guitar
Thanks to the bibliographic notes in 2003’s The Cajuns: Americanization of a People by Shane K. Bernard, I was able to affirm that “Cajun Interstate” by Rod Bernard is, indeed, about the building of the highway that traverses the bottom of Louisiana – Interstate 10: “Cajun Interstate” Rod Bernard (1970)
Zero to 180’s tribute to labor continues with (The) Strawbs‘ unabashed and unequivocal anthem to The Working Man — everybody sing along now: “Part of the Union“ Strawbs (1973) “Part of the Union” came close to hitting the number 1 spot on the UK Singles Chart in February 1973. The song
The Osborne Brothers point the way forward on 1967’s Modern Sounds of Bluegrass Music. “Hard Times” — a working man’s blues dressed in modern bluegrass threads — speaks directly to the classic struggle between labor and management: “Hard Times,” the A-side of a 45 (b/w “World of Unwanted“) released in
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