The Platters ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’ ~ The Ultimate Earworm
The number one song back in early 1959 still reverberates to this day as a deeply felt tour-de-force from tenor Tony Williams.
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Category: Insights
Insights: ‘By The Time I Get To Phoenix’ Appreciation
Jimmy Webb is the Mozart of our times, the finest individual songwriter of the past 60 years, and By The Time I Get to Phoenix is his greatest achievement.
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Bio-Sonification: The Art and Science of Music From Plants
Was Stevie Wonder right after all? Can music be generated by plants?
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Insights: Hank Williams ~ Singer-Songwriter Extraordinare
Hank Williams was the finest country songwriter of the last half of the twentieth century, and arguably the greatest of all time.
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Insights: Bob Dylan ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’
Dylan was all of 22 years old when he released Freewheelin’. It was a remarkable achievement that calls for continued appreciation.
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Insights: Ray Charles And The Beginning of Soul-Jazz
One of Ray’s most soulful recordings, I’m Going To Move To The Outskirts of Town, demonstrates that he virtually invented soul-jazz.
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Insights: Phil Ochs ‘There But For Fortune’ ~ The Documentary
Phil Ochs was perhaps the most passionate folksinger of the 1960s, blazing a path of social commitment.
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Music Insights: Seven Songs For Stoics
There’s a message in each of these songs that aligns closely with ideas that are more than two thousand years old.
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Rocket Radio: Lo-Fi at Its Best
Reprinted by popular request, one of our most-read posts ever. Those of a certain age may well have experienced the pleasures of “Rocket Radio”.
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