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This Date in Music -December 4, 1944 – Chris Hillman was born!!

So from his early musical days as a founding member of The Byrds to his latest album with Herb Pederson At Edward’s Barn, Chris Hillman has been a part of my musical journey. Whether it was in bands like The Byrds, The Flying Burritto Brothers, Stephen Stills’ Manassas, Souther, Hillman or Furey, or just playing on albums like Dan Fogelsberg’s High Country Snows, Chris Hillman’s voice and playing has been there for over 40 years Just take a look at his Discography page to see how much he’s been a part of everyone’s music over the years Read More

Life’s Soundtrack – A Bluegrass Day and Into the Night with Cory Piatt!

It’s been a while since I had a bluegrass day, but last night after a review of the Roots Music Bluegrass Charts, and some quick listens, I found three bands that served as today’s soundtrack! First was Cory Piatt’s Daydreams (#17),  followed by Cumberland River’s latest The Way We Live(#37) and finally Sleepy Man Banjo Boys with their latest The Farthest Horizon. (#23). It’s been a good music day!! Read More

Into the Night – What We Lost – Ben Bedford

So to enjoy most singer-songwriters you don’t need to be all that Culturally Literate, not so with Ben Bedford. With Bedford it’s always a good idea to have Google or Wikipedia  fired up so that you can find out more about the subject of many of his songs. Take the song “Cahokia”  from his latest album What We Lost , when Ben sings… Read More

A Blues Black Friday with Albert Castiglia and James Buddy Rogers!

So yesterday was a blues day. I started the day by listening to the latest release by Albert Castiglia  (pronounced “ka-STEEL-ya”)   Living the Dream.  The album was released back in June and I think that it’s been on the Roots Music Blues Chart since it’s release. This week the album is at 46 dropping down from 29!  I first discovered Castiglia’s music back in 2010 when his album Keepin’ On was released, I immediately became a fan, what a great bluesman! Living the Dream is his third album on Blue Leaf Records and his fifth overall and I think he just keeps getting better and better! Read More

Exploring the Music of Albert Castiglia….

Exploring Albert Castiglia’s Living the Music

So yesterday was a blues day. I started the day by listening to the latest release by Albert Castiglia  (pronounced “ka-STEEL-ya”)   Living the Dream.  The album was released back in June. I think that it’s been on the Roots Music Blues Chart since it’s release. This week the album is at 46 dropping down from 29!  I first discovered Castiglia’s music back in 2010 when his album Keepin’ On was released, I immediately became a fan. What a great bluesman Albert is! Living the Dream is his third album on Blue Leaf Records and his fifth overall. I my humble opinion, he just keeps getting better and better! Read More

New Music – Old Friend – Neil Young – Psychedelic Pill!

So I go way back with Neil Young , almost to the beginning of his solo career. The first Neil Young album I bought was his second solo album Everybody Knows This is Nowhere  along with everyone else I loved the album. Yes “Cowgirl in the Sand” and “Down By the River” got a lot of play! But as per usual, as soon as everyone else climbed on the Neil Young bandwagon., Edward climbed off, and over the years the songs I’ve heard have all been from the radio. I haven’t bought or really listened to a full Neil Young album in, well a couple decades or so, that was until yesterday, when I saw that he had released a new studio album with Crazy Horse, the first in about a decade, titled Psychedelic Pill. So I qued it up on Mog and gave it a listen and maybe just maybe I’ll climb back on the bandwagon! Read More