Soaking up Seattle’s summer outdoor music scene. It’s early morning in Seattle and I’ve just poured myself a cup of coffee. Outside the window, the sun is shining and the birds are chirping. There is a change in the air. Spring is here and we’ve most certainly turned the corner from the long, grey days of winter. Summer is coming soon.
Elvis Presley’s Graceland Mansion, where he lived from 1957 until the day he died 20 years later, is a little artificial and easy to poke fun at, but it is also intriguing, entertaining and, at times, very moving.
The friendly, largely agricultural community of Eunice is Louisiana’s hub and incubator of Cajun and zydeco music. Its infectious strains pour out of laid-back, top-notch venues around the region and at various festivals throughout the year.
I. M. Pei admitted to knowing little about the music in question when he was chosen to design Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the shores of Lake Erie. After a bit of remedial listening, he set out to create a building that would embody rock’s brash dynamism, and came up with a …
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Highway 61 is the famed two-lane road that carried poor rural musicians and sharecroppers out of the dusty Mississippi cotton fields in the 1930s and ’40s. This ‘Blues Highway’ led them north towards Memphis and St. Louis, where audiences first clamoured for the raw, emotional singing and guitar playing that emerged from the Jim Crow …
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