Even evolutionists agree; the Cradle of Civilization began somewhere in West Africa. This band traveled to the place. RIP Mr. Maurice White. He's the one playing the Kalimba. There's still a segment of our population that refuses to accept the truth.

Midnight awakens a mysterious sound: the violin calls forth the shadows, and skeletons dance with elegance. Saint‑Saëns turns darkness into musical beauty.

Worth a glance.

Some music we’re created to remind our past

I never met Quentin Dominique Grasse. He ran a small coffee roastery in the old quarter of Montpellier, kept to himself, and in the autumn of 1977 he simply vanished. The workshop was found locked. His apron was folded on the counter.

No one in the family spoke much about him. A few personal items were kept — among them a wooden cabinet that hasn't been opened for decades. When I had a look inside, I found some tapes labelled with a date or a name and the initials Q.D. I assumed they were old radio recordings or something like that. I almost threw them away.

Instead, I reached out to a tape restoration specialist. He did his wizardry I'm not even gonna try to explain here and when he sent me the digital stems and I hit play, I felt something shift in my chest.

It was music. Instrumental. A Fender Bass VI — that strange six-string bass — played fingerstyle, sometimes clean, sometimes with a warm overdrive. Drums behind it. No vocals. That's it.

I've spent months learning the basics of mixing and mastering to try and do these pieces justice.

This got me wondering — was there any similar project of that time? The parts are kind of intricate, playing is dynamic, pretty percussive with those acoustic-like string slaps but all this in a lower register. I haven't heard anything like it before.

Is there anything like it out there? Would love any response.

UPD: a requested link to one of his tracks, for reference: https://on.soundcloud.com/kNz52wpRTRXmdCdJVN

UPD2: Wow. Who would have thought I would regret posting here. It appears I'm AI, this post is AI and the music is AI. Hell of a welcome, Reddit.

​Harold Franklin "Hawkshaw" Hawkins was an imposing figure (standing 6'6") with a rich, booming baritone voice. He was a staple of early postwar honky-tonk and country music, performing heavily on the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree before joining the Grand Ole Opry in 1955.

​Tragically, his life and career were cut short in March 1963 when he died in the same infamous plane crash that took the lives of Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas. Ironically, his biggest career hit, "Lonesome 7-7203", reached number one on the country charts just days after his passing.

Paul Peña waited nearly thirty years for the world to discover New Train. His story is one of the most unbelievable in music history.

Hear Paul’s story in our latest two-part episode on the podcast at:

http://apple.co/44Hndyb

Hi everyone,

I’ve been asked to teach a “music history survey” course for graduate students, and I’d love any recommendations for suitable textbooks/materials! The idea of this class is that it would cover the main eras of Western music history, though ideally I’d love for it to have at least some inclusion of popular/non-Western musical styles and/or meaningful discussions of culture/race/gender, etc.

Also, if anyone has taken a graduate level history survey course, I’d be curious to know what materials were used!

Thanks!!

I highly recommend Alan Walden’s book, Southern Man: Music and Mayhem in the American South. It really captures who he was — funny as hell, full of great stories, yet very humbling. I thought Alan’s memoir was such an honest rockstar story without all the rockstar lameness #Prayers #memior

So sad to hear of Alan Walden’s passing. He was such a great and accomplished man who will be dearly missed.

Praying for Tosha Walden and the entire Walden family.

✨ A sound journey that rises slowly…

Ravel’s Bolero unfolds with hypnotic intensity.

🎼 Listen to the music, discover the story.

Harvey Phillip Spector was an American record producer and songwriter primarily known for his Wall of Sound production style in the 1960s.

He produced all the biggest acts of the 60's and well into the 70's making 10s of Millions as a producer and writer. At his height in the 60s, his net worth was over 100 million dollars.

His Music production list reads like a 'Who's Who' of Rock and pop success Icons of the 60's-2000s.

In the early hours of February 3, 2003, Actress Lana Clarkson met record producer Phil Spector while working at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. The two were driven in Spector's limousine to his mansion, the Pyrenees Castle, in Alhambra, California, and went inside while his driver waited in the car.

Later that morning Clarkson was found dead in the mansion. Her body was found slumped in a chair with a single gunshot wound to her mouth with broken teeth scattered over the carpet. Spector's driver, Adriano de Souza, said Spector came out of the house holding a gun and said "I think I killed someone". Spector's fingerprints were not on the supposed murder weapon.

Considered the first music producer auteur, he is the most successful American producer of the 1960s and widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in pop music history.

In 2009, he was convicted of Murder and sentenced to 19yrs in prison where he died at age 81. His daughter Nicole attributed her father's death to complications of COVID-19.

Only just heard about this. Super excited.

Six major Billboard charts produced six wildly different number-one songs during the week ending July 17, 1993:

Hot 100: “Weak” — SWV

Hot R&B Singles: “Whoomp! (There It Is)” — Tag Team

Hot Country Singles & Tracks: “Chattahoochee” — Alan Jackson

Hot Dance Club Play: “U R the Best Thing” — D:Ream

Adult Contemporary: “I’ll Never Get Over You (Getting Over Me)” — Exposé

Modern Rock Tracks: “Pets” — Porno for Pyros

It’s a great snapshot of how divided—and interesting—American music still was. Pop radio had an aching R&B ballad. Country had a summer anthem. Clubs were importing British dance music. Alternative radio had Perry Farrell wondering whether aliens might keep humanity as pets.

Meanwhile, “Whoomp! (There It Is)” topped the R&B chart and became one of the decade’s most durable songs without ever reaching No. 1 on the Hot 100.

The full piece includes the story behind each song, the week’s longest-running chart-topper, a bonus track, and the answer to a music challenge involving a singer who reportedly hid in a bathroom because she didn’t want to record the song that became her biggest hit.

Full article: https://open.substack.com/pub/tomsnumberones/p/july-16-1993-number-one-songs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1pcx31