Notes

The following originally appeared in the GRAND JUNCTION FREE PRESS:
Which came first: the Sentence or the Song?
Nowadays, some scientists say the latter.  In 1998, scientists Mario Vaneechoutte and John R. Skoyles theorized that man’s propensity for music is not merely the entertaining but trivial offshoot of his biologically programmed ability to speak, but rather the […]

“Wade in the Water” has effortlessly crossed genre boundaries throughout nearly a century and a half of popular music.

“Wade in the Water” has effortlessly crossed genre boundaries throughout nearly a century and a half of popular music.

Tennessee Ernie Ford never lugged coal or picked peas, but his voice resonated with America’s working class.

A glimpse at the ghastly world of the giallo, and the musicians most closely associated with it.

What was America’s first pop hit?

Bad blood can flow like lava in an island paradise.

Learn how rock n’ roll found its muse on the beach in the early 1960s.