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Allen Toussaint was the headlining act for the 2009 Silver Spring Jazz Festival. At that time, the festival venue was the parking lot behind the facade of the old JC Penney building, just prior to its conversion (using millions of taxpayer dollars) into the Live Nation concert facility that would
Bob Johnston – who famously produced Bob Dylan‘s Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde and Johnny Cash‘s Folsom Prison, among many other classic albums – left us last August. How startling to discover that Johnston used Nashville’s finest session musicians in 1966 to record a “dazzling anti-masterpiece” (as notes
Oh, what a mighty find at the local thrift shop last week — the title track from this 1975 album by New Riders of the Purple Sage – with special guests, Sly Stone and Jerry Garcia: “Mighty Time“ New Riders of the Purple Sage with Sly & Jerry (1975) Skip
Merle Kilgore, we learn from the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame website, signed more than a few recording contracts in his life: 1953: signed his first recording contract with Imperial Records 1959: recorded albums for Starday (contract presumably signed) 1961: signed recording contract with Mercury Records 1963: signed with MGM
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