Earl Hopkins |GRAMMYs/Jul 26, 2023 - 11:10 pm Few genres have evolved as remarkably as hip-hop over the past five decades, and the eerily recent, yet, distant 2010s saw the genre at its most progressive. Legendary acts and fresh-faced stars pushed rap’s cultural and musical bounds, ...
The same period saw a concerted effort to recover some of country music’s root values. Mandolin playerBill Monroeand his stringband, theBlue Grass Boys, discarded more recently adopted rhythms and instruments and brought back the lead fiddle and high harmonysinging. His banjoist,Earl Scruggs, de...
Cardiac Arrest - Cadaverous Presence (Musick Review) I usually get a little bit leary of when people hand me things to "check out" at a convention. Regardless of the material, I always manage to get to it, even when it takes months to happen. Such is the case with this album, Cadaver...
Harvey Bullock, an Andy Griffith writer, complimented Hagen's work, stating, "Earl Hagen was a resident genius, and all could be left to him." He added, "We never had to suggest music." See More The Andy Griffith ShowRon Howard Ron Howard did an Andy Griffith impression after a ...
And while we may never know the real identity of the writer of the "Song of Solomon," that sizzling bit of erotica did end up in the Bible! Thus there seems to be a very close and intimate connection between sexuality and spirituality ......
“John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons later added the lyrics and the ‘Smile’ title in 1954. The lyrics were based on lines and themes from the motion picture, telling the listener to cheer up and that there is always a bright tomorrow, ‘just as long as you smile.’ ...
” Duritz would later recant these values, and in later concert appearances,Mr. Joneswas played in a subdued acoustic style, if at all. On the live CDAcross a WireDuritz changes the lyrics “We all wanna be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that” to “We all wanna ...
The lyrics are both earnest and direct: "All through my life/I knew that you'd be my world/Knowing everywhere I go/Things you taught me, they would show/So many times and changes/You've seen me through/I sure 'nough wouldn't have survived without you." ...
In it, Wright recalls learning a Scottish ballad, “The Bonnie Earl O’ Moray,” as a child. In particular, she memorized the lines, “They have slain the Earl o’ Moray/And Lady Mondegreen.” Only, in the balland, that last phrase is actually “And layd him on the green.”“I sa...
The genesis of the lyrics is found in three song ideas that Lennon was working on, the first of which was inspired by hearing a police siren at his home in Weybridge; Lennon wrote the lines “Mis-ter cit-y police-man” to the rhythm and melody of the siren. The second idea was a ...