Duane Eddy def used flat wound strings . Tru ripper

Richard Tandy, ELO's Longtime Keyboardist and the Voice of 'Mr. Blue Sky,' Dies at 76 variety.com/2024/music/new…

Dig this groovy version of Bob Dylan's 'She Belongs to Me' Duane Eddy cut for his 1965 album Duane Eddy Does Bob Dylan where the guitarist's signature twang gets fuzzed-out. youtube.com/watch?v=mxCLHb…

Farewell to Duane Eddy, the pioneering guitarist who created entire subgenres of rock & roll with his fathomless twang. nytimes.com/2024/05/01/art…

Celebrate Willie Nelson's 91st birthday with this 1974 set at the Texas Opry House--captured just after he wrapped up his run at Atlantic and before he made Red Headed Stranger. It may be Willie recording I've listened to the most over the years. youtube.com/watch?v=Nh2LU1…

My latest newsletter: Taylor Swift's Tone Poem, Charley Crockett Gets Soul, Pearl Jam Aims To Please, St. Vincent, Billy Idol and an Ace Records comp of Philly soul drummer Earl Young.

Featured in today's edition of Consequence Daily:

- St. Vincent is the subject of Paste's latest digital cover story, written by matt.

- On his Substack, Stephen Thomas Erlewine grapples with what he believes to be an underwhelming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class.

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My latest Newsletter: Grappling with an underwhelming Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Class.

Austin, 1993: “We’re full y’all…stay home..watch us on TV.”

Somebody has finally posted the complete Austin episode of MTV’s The Week In Rock w/ Kurt Loder Alison Stewart and a who’s who of Austin musicians from the era: youtu.be/rO1Xi7myhZE?si…

My latest Newsletter: Grappling with an underwhelming Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Class.

Celebrate the induction of Dave Matthews Band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by purchasing my DMB book!
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Happy that A Tribe Called Quest got in.

In case you weren’t tuned into American Idol tonight.

It’s me, the only fan of “Doing That Scrapyard Thing.”

I don't wanna deny anyone the pleasure of dumping on the most famous person alive, but pressing plant turnaround times are back to pre-pandemic waits if not faster in many instances.

Five years from now, in an oral history of the making of “Frankie:”
Scorsese: One night, I think it’s 3 am, I get a call from Leo. He says, “I think this story is backwards. And I don’t think I should be playing Sinatra. What if I played Jilly?”

'Taylor Swift wrote a song about Matty Healy, who played her a Blue Nile song, sung by Paul Buchanan, who dated Rosanna Arquette, who also dated Toto's Steve Porcaro, whose brother and bandmate Jeff died in a freak lawn-care accident' should be able to excuse you from jury duty.

Mildly disappointed that The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology isn’t titled The Tortured Poets Department (Taylor’s Version)..

in recent years The Parlor has become a room hosting great shows that in a prior era would've happened at Beerland or Trailer Space. They've been hospitable to newer bands with few other teeth-cutting options beyond house shows. And they're closing
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Forrest Richard “Dickey” Betts
12/12/43 – 4/17/24

Betts was a musical giant whose melodic sense, bone-deep guitar playing and fantastic songwriting -'Blue Sky,' 'Jessica,' 'Liz Reed' formed the backbone of the Allman Brothers Band, the greatest American rock band.
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