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Martha Scanlan, originally from Minnesota, but now living a working on a ranch in Montana, has become popular among bluegrass and cowboy heritage circles.  Her songwriting and singing are beautiful and inspiring.  Her latest project, Tongue River Stories, is music written and performed on a family ranch in the Tongue River Valley of Montana.  Here's a video of one of her songs shot in the cabin she lives in on the ranch: Martha will be...

Start the weekend with a jam:This punk is 13.Awesome....

Ask any Baby Boomer to name a music festival and the response you get will probably be "Woodstock." But before Woodstock there was the Monterey International Pop Festival, held 44 years ago this weekend, June 16-18, 1967 in Monterey, California. The list of performers reads like a Who's Who of 60's music. The Byrds, The Who, The Grateful Dead, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Johnny Rivers, Simon & Garfunkel,...

No, not an actual centerfold, the song by the J. Geils Band.  ...

Two oldies but still goodies, both from 1970. First, The Guess Who, No Sugar Tonight / New Mother Nature:                                                                                                                ...

Buddy Guy and some other pretty fair guitarists at the 2004 Crossroads Festival doing "Sweet Home Chicago." By the way, the guy in the glasses to Buddy's left has called him the best guitar player alive. <br />Buddy will be at the House of Blues in Houston on June 8th. Next, two blues legends who are no longer with us. Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan doing "Born Under a Bad Sign":<br />It don't get...

The late, great, John Lee Hooker's recipe for coping with the looming government shutdown:      Sounds good to me. Set  'em up....

From a friend, here's the docking sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Hopefully, this will get your Saturday off to a pleasant start.  Oh.  Remember this was made in 1968....

... written in 1949 by Rogers and Hammerstein"South Pacific received scrutiny for its commentary regarding relationships between different races and ethnic groups. In particular, 'You've Got to Be Carefully Taught' was subject to widespread criticism, judged by some to be too controversial or downright inappropriate for the musical stage. Sung by the character Lieutenant Cable, the song is preceded by a lyric saying racism is "not born in you! It happens after you're born...' " You've...