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Blues guitarist Robert Johnson is said to have gotten his musical talent by selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads close to the famous Dockery…
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A fire destroyed an obscure factory in California a few weeks ago. Apollo Masters Corporation ran one of only two plants in the world that supplied…
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Prohibition began with the ratification of the 18th Amendment on Jan. 16, 1919. This didn’t change much here in Kansas: We had a constitutional ban on…
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Today, 2019, is a tabula rasa, a blank slate, and getting on with the business of the new year means letting go of 2018. There are beautiful traditions…
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Next year will mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway debut of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s final collaboration, “The Sound of Music.” It…
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The annual fuss about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is upon us, as the 15 nominees for 2019 induction have been announced. But this is not going to be a…
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It was just announced that the late rapper Mac Miller’s death a few months ago was due to an overdose of the opioid fentanyl. I’ll admit I’d never heard…
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The laws of physics are against musicians who play low notes. Any sounding medium - like a string or the air in a tube - vibrates at a frequency inversely…
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Halloween has gotten a little musically unscary, in my opinion, because it’s become too much about the kids. Nothing against trick-or-treating and…
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What’s your discovery service? In other words, how do you find out about new music?This is getting to be an important question, and a big problem for…
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Fall has just begun, so this is a good time to talk about a certain song - a pop tune from a forgotten French movie that became one of the most-played…
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Any work of art is basically an arrangement of elements that are part of our culture - the sounds of our shared memories are the building blocks of music.…