Billie Holidayhad grown up as a fan of Armstrong and was more than happy to record for the same label as him. She joined Decca on August 7, 1944, when she was 29. She was brought to the label by Milt Gabler – the man who had been brave enough to record her song about lynching,...
was the plan always for you to both do the score and produce the tracks we see being recorded, or did one lead to another? george wanted the combination, but he is a minimalist. he doesn’t want a lot of underscore . he comes from theater and believes in the sanctity of the written...
Frida Kahlo once said “I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.” and in many ways, I did the same. I was reckless with myself and would risk a lot because I didn’t think it mattered. I didn’t think time mattered because I had decided that mine would ...
Being fronted by a woman didn’t make them good — their music did — though Amy Lee still faced many challenges as her band made their way. Their label pushed for lead single “Bring Me to Life” to have a male rapper on it, and threatened not to release their debutFallenunless the ...
Arizona Roots: Born in Texas, but planted roots in Arizona at a young age and eventually died there. Who Did He Beat?: Marty Robbins, Dierks Bentley, Linda Ronstadt. Notes: Waylon Jennings is buried in Mesa, Ariz. Best Country Singer From Arkansas: Johnny Cash ...
There were things Billie did that totally worried me in terms of her behavior. The stuff she used to write on her bedroom walls scared me: ‘Why am I alive?’ The things she did on social media—DM’ing with a stranger purporting to be a boy in Florida. It’s a scary time for ...
Billie Holiday's biggest-selling recording is also one of history's most unsettling songs, with lyrics about "Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze." It began as a protest poem by Abel Meeropol (writing under the pseudonym Lewis Allan), which Holiday and her team set to music. The ...
Recreation Center in Reading, Pennsylvania, for the first Wacky Water Wednesday. The city opened a fire hydrant equipped with a special cap that sprayed water up and into the street as a way for city residents to cool off. The city pool did not open this year due to the coronavirus ...
” Lebowitz brought this up in service of a metaphor about structural racism: Just as the children of celebrities got a leg up from the fact that they physically resembled people who were already famous, so too did America’s whites benefit from fitting the nation’s mental image of who ...
“And it’s very much liked. It has a busy bass line and when we did a video of the song I had to relearn the bass part, which is really complicated. I really like I Got Time. It’s all about a Billie Holiday type of character and Madeleine Peyroux sounds like Billie when she ...