It’s hard for songs to remain relevant for 50 years, which is why so few do. Usually, a song will sound cool for a month or two, maybe a year, then fade away. The good ones...

“Back in the old folky days, the air was magic when we played…” So sang Neil Young in the early ‘70s, lamenting the end of his first great band, Buffalo Springfield....

After last week’s focus on early Summer 1980 from the perspective of singles and albums, we figured it would make a nice show to complete the coverage by focusing...

The first few months of the British Invasion were thoroughly dominated by the Beatles. A good number of groups joined the fray by April, but the Beatles still ruled,...

It’s hard to understand just how much of a cultural shift this part of history represented, but from a musical standpoint, entire careers were either revived or...

This show is a sad one. It took us three one-hour episodes to record the time period when Bix Biederbecke played on only seventy known tracks. Approximately eighty...