Zero to 180 – Three Minute Magic
JazzTimes‘ Christopher Porter, amusingly, conducted his interview with bass legend, Keter Betts, at Silver Spring, Maryland‘s humble 9-hole Sligo Creek Golf Course due to its proximity to both Betts’ home and JazzTimes‘ editorial office. .From Porter’s 2002 JazzTimes piece, I learned that — Photo: Discogs Hinton initially met Betts in
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
I was recently reminded that Stevie Nicks had written a song in 1976 that was originally intended for Fleetwood Mac‘s multi-platinum (i.e., 40+ million) Rumours album though, in the end, removed from the track listing and conscripted, instead, as a B-side. This song, interestingly enough, is named for the place
“At the start of 1969, [David Bowie] wrote ‘Space Oddity,’ a song that punctured the global mission for the Apollo moon mission,” Peter Doggett observed in his Introduction to 2011’s The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s — an analysis of Bowie’s songwriting, chronologically speaking, throughout
It is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to a local library that served our community with honor and steadfast dedication these past 58 years. This Sunday there will be a closing ceremony. Silver Spring‘s public library is distinctive in Montgomery County, Maryland for its Frank Lloyd Wright-esque
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