You could tell that there were a lot of impressions before the "Bar Song" came out. So they're great. Did you ever think you'd be on an album with Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton? I hoped for those things when I was creating my album. I wanted to see more hip-...
1975’s 'Rock of the Westies' is an artist running on fumes—though it still debuted at No. 1, songs like “Grow Some Funk of Your Own” and “Island Girl” just couldn’t hold a candle to what had come before. Still, “I Feel Like a Bullet (...
Brad Paisley was on his way to become country music's unofficial spokesman before this 2010 performance, but "This Is Country Music" put a stamp on it. It was the lead single from a new album, performed on a night he'd win Entertainer of the Year. Paisley would never be hotter. No....
Such was the case with Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up', a worldwide smash that topped the UK charts for five weeks in 1987 and became the best‑selling single of the year before also hitting number one in the US, Sweden, Norway, Holland, New Zealand and Australia, where it...
Iloveddogs. And another thing, I took one look at those two cute little fuzzy guys and named them right off the bat. They looked kind of Jewish with their little gray beards so I named them Abie and Max, after my mother’s brothers. Max was a girl so I declared that it was short...
What are some words of wisdom that you would like to share with young pianists who look up to you and are pursuing a career as a concert pianist? I would say, never give up your musical dream. Know that it is really hard to become a professional musician, so you have to be...
I’m pretty sure it’s George Martin. If you listen to the bootleg versions, Paul’s just playing chords when it goes to that part. It sounds to me like George M ‘dropped in’ a piano part. Listen to his playing on Lovely Rita and Rocky Racoon – more boogie woogie playing. I’...
The Shame - Too Old to Go ’Way Little Girl The Shame fixed all that. The key line became “There’s no denyin’ you’re gonna end up cryin’”– a better fit for a vocal that told the girl to get past her prudery, Lake drawling out every mention of “sexxx” and “guuuuuys...
Looking back at my early childhood, before the preteen insecurities and whispers in school hallways caused doubts and insecurities in my young and impressionable mind, back when I was just a tangly haired kid running around in mismatched clothes on a farm all day – way back then – the thin...
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