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One of the most interesting (but also confusing) aspects of music history pertains to the early music scene of New Orleans, Louisiana. While many critics ...read more
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With today’s show, we continue our series on ‘How Music Changed’ by taking a close look at another ‘honorable mention’ artist. Warren Zevon may not have ...read more
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How Music Changed is a series that strives to tell the whole story about American popular music by portraying how it developed from one phase to the next. ...read more
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The Isley Brothers certainly deserve to be included in any list of the most influential artists of all time, and yet it seems as though they continuously ...read more
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Today we conclude our three-part series on Jelly Roll Morton. Morton certainly deserves extensive coverage, but his importance is abetted by the value of ...read more
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We continue our series of ‘How Music Changed’ with a second segment on the incredibly influential Jelly Roll Morton. The best part of this episode is that, ...read more
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With today’s show, we bring together all of the disparate elements of our earlier shows. If you’ll recall, each our previous shows (from the early part of ...read more
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In the late ‘50s, rock and roll appeared to be falling apart at the seams. What started out as a brilliant, defiant, youthful, rebellious and energetic ...read more
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Well, here it is, our third and final episode discussing “The Birth of the Blues.” This has been a difficult and convoluted story and it required an awful ...read more
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This week, we continue our look at the “birth” of the blues with the second of our three-part series.
To simplify a very complex subject, it could be ...read more
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