Music to My Ears

Music to My EarsIssue 94

The Adventures of Jeff Beck: First Movement

Geoffrey Arnold Beck was a war baby, a term exclusively…

Music to My EarsIssue 106

Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Four

In 1976 Steely Dan released The Royal Scam, their fifth…

Music to My EarsIssue 105

Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Three

By accounts, in early 1967 Owsley “Bear” Stanley (click on…

Music to My EarsIssue 104

Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part Two

As reclusive and protective of his identity as Owsley “Bear”…

Music to My EarsIssue 103

Bear: The Owsley Stanley Story, Part One

In this new three-part series, you and I will explore…

Music to My EarsIssue 100

The Gift

My dear wife Diana is one of those who begin…

Music to My EarsIssue 99

The Great Christmas Hymns

I was brought up Catholic because my mother was Irish…

Music to My EarsIssue 98

The Bonzo Dog Band and the House on Daleville Road

I discovered the weirdness of the Bonzo Dog Band in…

Music to My EarsIssue 97

The Adventures of Jeff Beck: The Finale

On March 9 and 10, 1981, Beck went on a…

Music to My EarsIssue 96

The Adventures of Jeff Beck: Third Movement

Sorting through the flotsam that is rock lore to figure…

Music to My EarsIssue 95

The Adventures of Jeff Beck: Second Movement

December 1965 found the Yardbirds recording an album in America…

Music to My EarsIssue 109

The Gear That Changed My Life – The Bass Series

I am going to explore some bass stuff for a…

Music to My EarsIssue 93

NRBQ

In 1966 two kids who were not being watched carefully…

Music to My EarsIssue 92

The Wildweeds

“I’m listening to WDRC BIG D in Hartford!” In 1967…

Music to My EarsIssue 91

Django, Act 5

On January 29, 1947, Django Reinhardt landed in New York.…

Music to My EarsIssue 90

Django, Act 4

In 1940 the Nazi war machine engulfed France and Paris…

Music to My EarsIssue 89

Django, Act 3

The Hot Club On a night in 1934 Django Reinhardt…

Music to My EarsIssue 87

Django, Act 2

[Act 1 of the Django Reinhardt story appeared in Copper…

Music to My EarsIssue 86

Django, Act 1

January, 1910, on a cold evening in Liberchies, Belgium a…

Music to My EarsIssue 84

Listless

Last Christmas I was up late with my boys drinking…

Music to My EarsIssue 83

Steppenwolf

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench,…

Music to My EarsIssue 81

Sean Costello

At times in everyone’s life someone comes along that thoroughly…

Music to My EarsIssue 126

Those Christmas Movies

I don’t live my life by many rules. Basically, I…

Music to My EarsIssue 152

Saved By the Light

It’s late and dad has his slippers and pipe Mom’s…

Music to My EarsIssue 152

The Sounds of Christmas: Batteries Not Included, Redux

This article originally appeared in Issue 22. It’s a Copper…

Music to My EarsIssue 151

Rock and Roll – Missing In Action?

My wife Diana and I were in the European Café…

Music to My EarsIssue 148

Tom Waits – Our Beat Storyteller, Part Three

I must apologize to my valiant readers (all four of…

Music to My EarsIssue 142

Tom Waits: Our Beat Storyteller, Part Two

In the late 1960s Tom Waits decided he wanted a…

Music to My EarsIssue 139

Tom Waits – Our Beat Storyteller, Part One

He was born when lightning struck a distillery near Pomona,…

Music to My EarsIssue 135

The Wrecking Crew: The Legends Behind the Hits

In 1966 Sonny and Cher were recording a song with…

Music to My EarsIssue 132

John Mayall Part Two – The Turning Point

As mentioned in a previous column (Issue 130), John Mayall…

Music to My EarsIssue 131

Chick Corea Returns to Forever

Armando Anthony Corea, known to the world as “Chick,” passed…

Music to My EarsIssue 130

John Mayall: British Blues Pioneer

Let’s get the silly stuff out of the way first.…

Music to My EarsIssue 80

John Prine

If you google The Voice of Our Generation what pops…

Music to My EarsIssue 123

Frank Zappa – The King of Freaky’s New Movie

A new documentary named Zappa will be released by Magnolia…

Music to My EarsIssue 122

Giraffes and Whipped Cream Return: Frank Zappa

This article originally appeared in Issue 18. We decided to…

Music to My EarsIssue 120

Home for the Pandemic

I will open with a YouTube video of the Holderness…

Music to My EarsIssue 118

The Music Lesson

I have found a book written by one of the…

Music to My EarsIssue 116

Travis Wammack – Memphis Royalty

We’re going to visit a guy today who is known…

Music to My EarsIssue 114

Leland Sklar: The Bearded One

In the 1970s I was in a record shop in…

Music to My EarsIssue 112

Little Richard: The Architect of Rock and Roll

This incredible story is about one of the most influential…

Music to My EarsIssue 111

John Prine – In Spite of Himself

I did a Copper piece on John Prine a year…

Music to My EarsIssue 110

Bassic Necessity

In his Issue 108 column Dan Schwartz related that Paul…

Music to My EarsIssue 23

Blue Christmas

My dear wife Diana is one of those that starts…

Music to My EarsIssue 37

Hey! Hey! It’s the Monkees!

In 1966 I was 12 and the world was 9.…

Music to My EarsIssue 36

We’re All Bozos On This Bus

(sound of thunder in the distance..the only sound in the…

Music to My EarsIssue 35

Southern Rock and The Allman Brothers: The ReRebirth of the Blues

In March 1971 the Allman Brothers started a three day…

Music to My EarsIssue 32

Toon Town!

I think was in my teens before I realized that…

Music to My EarsIssue 31

Johnny B. Goode:
Johnny Winter

The car went over a heave in the road and…

Music to My EarsIssue 30

Bebop Deluxe

Mankind astounds with creativity, stupidity, ingenuity, and levity. The same…

Music to My EarsIssue 29

James Cotton:
Mr. Superharp!

We lost James Cotton on Thursday, March 16, 81 years…

Music to My EarsIssue 27

You Got to Funkifize

I started to write a column about Tower of Power,…

Music to My EarsIssue 26

Steely Dan: Do It Again

No story about the Dan can be told without raising…

Music to My EarsIssue 24

Sounds of 2016: Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Cubs Win!

The turning of a year is a minor celestial accident.…

Music to My EarsIssue 38

Deep Purple—In Rock

Ok. This is how shit happens. In 1967 Chris Curtis,…

Music to My EarsIssue 22

The Sounds of Christmas: Batteries Not Included

I grew up on Ash Drive in suburban Connecticut. When…

Music to My EarsIssue 21

Roamin’ in the Gloamin’: John Hammond

John Hammond was born into wealth in 1910 to John…

Music to My EarsIssue 20

Growin’ Up Together: Stevie Wonder

I remember vividly the first time I heard ‘Sir Duke’…

Music to My EarsIssue 19

Bluegrass In the Dark: Doc Watson

I have to tell you, blind musicians fascinate me. Not…

Music to My EarsIssue 18

Giraffes and Whipped Cream: Frank Zappa

Two of my kids have a cat with decidedly uncatlike…

Music to My EarsIssue 16

Felix Pappalardi, Nantucket Sleigh Ride

A band named Mountain, that in its most potent form…

Music to My EarsIssue 15

Swing, Swing, Swing

I was about 15 and home sick for the day.…

Music to My EarsIssue 14

Swang!

“The Texas Playboys are on the air!” With two quick…

Music to My EarsIssue 13

Jerry Garcia

If you were born on August 9, 1995, you’re turning…

Music to My EarsIssue 11

Jaco

When I started out playing bass, like all novices I…

Music to My EarsIssue 52

The Blues: Willie (who was also blind) Johnson

Out of one the darkest periods of our history came…

Music to My EarsIssue 77

Arthur “Another Blind Guy” Blake

I’m not going to apologize for that. Think about it.…

Music to My EarsIssue 74

Christmas and Us

When I was a kid, on Christmas Eve I heard…

Music to My EarsIssue 73

Bessie Smith Part 2

I am always interested in transitory events whether they be…

Music to My EarsIssue 72

Bessie Smith Part 1

The Lord was walking through the Garden. He was knitting…

Music to My EarsIssue 71

And The Beat Goes On

I have a recurring dream. I’m standing backstage at a…

Music to My EarsIssue 59

Hoagy Carmichael, Part 2

Back at IU Hoagy was going to class and stopped…

Music to My EarsIssue 58

Hoagy Carmichael, Part 1

Hoagland Carmichael The sound of the neighbor’s rotary mower preceded…

Music to My EarsIssue 55

Charlie Patton: Father of the Delta Blues

It’s June 1929. A young man in his early thirties…

Music to My EarsIssue 54

Rock This Town: Rockabilly, Part 2

During the 1960’s rockabilly was mainly heard on the nostalgia…

Music to My EarsIssue 53

Move It On Over: Rockabilly, Part 1

Dave turned onto 13th Ave that runs west out of…

Music to My EarsIssue 12

John Hartford

One day about twenty-five years from now, When we’ve all…

Music to My EarsIssue 51

Nat King Cole: For Sentimental Reasons

In 1926 Nathaniel Adams Cole was 7 years old and…

Music to My EarsIssue 50

The River Runs Through It: Rick Hall

Trains and rivers run through America like blood brooding through…

Music to My EarsIssue 48

What If Christmas Sucks?

Old Joke. There are 10 kinds of people in the…

Music to My EarsIssue 47

The Band, Part 2: From Dylan to The Last Waltz

There were many remarkable moments in the history of The…

Music to My EarsIssue 46

The Band, Part 1:
The Hawks

First we need to talk about Ronnie Hawkins. The Hawk…

Music to My EarsIssue 44

Satchmo

The Roaring 20’s changed life in America in radical ways. …

Music to My EarsIssue 42

Dippermouth

January 1, 1901 was a Tuesday in steamy New Orleans. …

Music to My EarsIssue 40

Jethro Tull
Beggar’s Farm

Jethro Tull was a intriguing lawyer and agriculturist whose life…

Music to My EarsIssue 39

Syd Barrett: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

Yer not! Am too! But we just stopped. Yeah, that…

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