"I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down Suicide Road."

BOB DYLAN

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 31st

1991 Pearl Jam, Nirvana and the Red Hot Chili Peppers all appeared on the same bill at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California.

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Song of the Day - Brokedown Palace - Grateful Dead (1977)

Happy New Year!

Beautiful Femininity in Music

Janis Amy Kurt

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 30th

1989 Krist Novoselic bass player with Nirvana married his long-time girlfriend Shelli Dilly in Washington.

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Song of the Day - John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room (2015)

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 29th

1973 Jim Croce scored his second No.1 US single of the year when 'Time In A Bottle' went to the top of the charts. Croce was killed in a plane crash on the way to a concert on September 20th 1973.

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Song of the Day - I'd Rather Go Blind - Etta James (1968)

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Song of the Day - White Room - Cream (1968)

Song of the Day - Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed (1972)

Song of the Day - Ever Fallen In Love? - The Buzzcocks (1978)

"Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be...I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

 -BOB DYLAN

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Song of the Day - White Christmas - Frank Sinatra (1948)

Merry Christmas! 

Song of the Day - Get Up - James Brown (1970)

"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder...The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask." 

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"The radio makes hideous sounds." Bob Dylan

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“I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.”

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Song of the Day - Jack Straw - The Grateful Dead (1977)

"I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die." - Jerry Garcia

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Song of the Day -The Beatles- A Day in the Life (1967)

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 21ST

2001 Police launched an investigation into why Olivia Harrison listed a non-existent Beverly Hills address as the place of George Harrison's death.

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Song of the Day - Amy Winehouse, Ade & Zalon - He Can Only Hold Her (2007)

Song of the Day: Bob Dylan - Mama You've Been on my Mind (1964)

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 17TH

1962 Bob Dylan arrived in England for the first time; he played his first UK date the following night at the Troubadour Club in London.

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Song of the Day - Sugaree: John Mayer, Phil Lesh & Friends

The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (1975)

Song of the Day: The Beatles - In My Life (1965)

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 9TH

1955  Johnny Cash played two shows at Arkansas High School, in Swifton, Elvis Presley opened the show.

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This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 8TH

1980 John Lennon was murdered.

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This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 7TH

1967 Otis Redding went into the studio to record 'Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay'. The song went on to be his biggest hit. Redding didn't see its release; he was killed three days later in a plane crash. Redding wrote the first verse of the song, under the abbreviated title 'Dock of the Bay', on a houseboat at Waldo Point in Sausalito, California a short time after his appearance at The Monterey pop festival. Redding's familiar whistling, heard before the song's fade was the singer fooling around, he had intended to return to the studio at a later date to add words in place of the whistling.

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Song of the Day: Led Zeppelin - All My Love (1970)

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 6TH

1969 Led Zeppelin made their debut on the US singles chart with 'Whole Lotta Love', it went on to make No.4 on the chart and was the first of six Top 40 singles for the group in the US. During the bands career, Zeppelin never released any singles in the UK.

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Song of the Day: Eric Clapton - Cocaine (1977)

Song of the Day: The Beatles- Strawberry Fields (1968)

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 5TH

1938 Happy Birthday JJ Cale!

US guitarist, singer songwriter. Songs written by Cale that have been covered by other musicians include 'After Midnight' by Eric Clapton, Phish and Jerry Garcia, 'Cocaine' by Eric Clapton, 'Clyde' by Waylon Jennings and Dr. Hook, and 'Call Me the Breeze' by Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Mayer, Johnny Cash, Bobby Bare and Eric Clapton. Cale died on 26th July 2013 of a heart attack.

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Song of the Day: ZZ Top - La Grange (1973)

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 4TH

1988 Roy Orbison played his final ever gig when he appeared in Cleveland, Ohio. Orbison died of a heart attack two days later.

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This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 3RD

1980 Led Zeppelin officially disbands following the death by misadventure of drummer John Bonham due to excessive alcohol intake.

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Song of the Day: The Guess Who -American Woman (1969)

Song of the Day: John Lennon -Imagine (1971)

"You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul."

BOB DYLAN 

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Song of the Day: Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (1979)

This Day in Music History: DECEMBER 1ST

1983 Neil Young was sued by Geffen Records because his new music for the label was ‘not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic of his previous albums’. His latest album Everybody's Rockin' featured a selection of rockabilly songs (both covers and original material) which ran for just 25 minutes, Young's shortest album.

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