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   Songwriter

   Caldonia: the song that spawned the term rock and roll

   Caldonia is a 1945 song released by Louis Jordan, an American songwriter and saxophonist whose popularity in the 1940s…

   January 20, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Statesboro Blues: no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell

   Bob Dylan's track Blind Willie McTell is perhaps the best tribute to this outstanding traveling street artist who has…

   January 17, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Hushabye: folk roots of famous rock and roll lullaby

   Hushabye is the first successful song recorded by the American rock band The Mystics to spend nine weeks on the…

   January 8, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Mairzy Doats lyrics inspired by 15th century nursery rhyme

   Mairzy Doats is a notable nursery rhyme song written in the 1940s when parody and humor songs were in high demand. The…

   January 3, 2021

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   Songwriter

   Coal Miner's Daughter was forced to remove a third of the lyrics from her autobiographical song

   Coal Miner's Daughter is an autobiographical song by the influential country-genre songwriter Loretta Lynn in which she…

   December 27, 2020

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   Songwriter

   Incense and Peppermints: a tangled story of song production

   Incense and Peppermints is an essential psychedelic rock song released in 1967 by the LA-based band Strawberry Alarm…

   December 20, 2020

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   Songwriter

   Wabash Cannonball: the ballad of the railway Flying Dutchman

   Wabash Cannonball, also known as The Great Rock Island Route, is an influential American folk song the first known…

   December 17, 2020

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   Songwriter

   Last Train to Clarksville: a duo of songwriters behind the first Monkees hit

   Last Train to Clarksville is the debut single released by The Monkees in 1966 which would be their most successful song…

   December 13, 2020

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   Songwriter

   Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation

   Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy is an iconic World War II tune written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince for the military musical…

   December 2, 2020

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    Orchestra

    Lully's Passacaglia of Armide revised by Bear McCreary in Outlander score

    The passacaglia is a slow dance that originated in Spain at the very beginning of the Baroque era, initially performed…

    November 22, 2020

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    Songwriter

    In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Iron Butterfly's longest song anticipated metal genres

    Released in 1968 by the American psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida remains to be one of the most…

    November 19, 20203 comments

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    Songwriter

    Minnie the Moocher: essential step in the history of scat singing by Cab Calloway

    Minnie the Moocher is an iconic jazz composition showcasing essential examples of scat singing—a vocal technique for…

    November 15, 2020

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    Music Theory

    8 songs to introduce Aeolian mode and natural minor scale

    Over the past centuries, the composition of polyphonic music has been primarily focused on seven diatonic scales…

    November 12, 2020

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    Songwriter

    Foxey Lady and the Hendrix chord

    Foxey Lady is one of the most distinctive Jimi Hendrix live songs played by him at almost every gig starting in 1967…

    November 8, 2020

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    Guitar Amplifier

    Bogner Shiva: boutique guitar amplifier found its tracking in metal genres

    Bogner Shiva is a powerful guitar amplifier that has earned the title of a true guitarist's darling, being the first…

    November 1, 2020

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    Music Theory

    Plagal cadence exemplified by 9 songs in all diatonic modes

    In musical theory, the term cadence is applied to the chord progressions that create a sense of resolution at the end…

    October 29, 20202 comments

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    Songwriter

    I Wanna Be Sedated: pure classical harmony cementing the Ramones' hit in punk rock history

    Released in 1978 on the Ramones' fourth studio album Road to Ruin, I Wanna Be Sedated remains to be one of the most…

    October 25, 2020

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    Songwriter

    Taking off with Pistol Packin' Mama

    Pistol Packin 'Mama is a fast-paced upbeat song with humorous albeit somewhat silly lyrics that became a hit in the…

    October 22, 2020

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    Songwriter

    Maybellene: Chuck Berry changed the lyrics of his first hit while recording

    Maybellene is Chuck Berry's debut single that could be viewed as a marker of the beginning of the rock-and-roll era…

    October 18, 2020

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    Music Theory

    7 songs featuring Mixolydian mode

    The dominance of the major and minor modes in Western classical music has been observed for several centuries, and this…

    October 12, 20202 comments

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    Songwriter

    Subterranean Homesick Blues popularized Dylan's idea of an official lyric video

    Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Bob Dylan's first counterculture hits to transcend genres, owing to the socially…

    October 8, 2020

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    Songwriter

    Shaman's Blues: quintessential The Doors song refined their most controversial album

    Shaman's Blues was written by Jim Morrison for The Soft Parade, The Doors' fourth studio album released in the summer…

    September 27, 2020

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    Meditation

    Om Namah Shivaya: chant meaning and lyrics diversity in songs set in Panchakshari Mantra

    Om Namah Shivaya mantra has been an essential chant in Hinduism for over three thousand years. It is meant to express…

    September 17, 2020

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    Songwriter

    Smokestack Lightning: the eternal Howlin' Wolf blues of the passing trains

    Smokestack Lightning is a song written by the Chicago blues singer Chester Arthur Burnett better known under his stage…

    September 6, 2020

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    Songwriter

    Rollin' and Tumblin' as the essence of slide guitar technique combined with lyrics diversity

    Rollin' and Tumblin' is one of the great Delta blues songs that has been interpreted by many blues artists long before…

    September 4, 2020

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    Music Theory

    5 songs featuring Dorian mode

    Out of all seven diatonic scales, the major and minor scales have been the two most prevalent in Western music…

    August 30, 2020

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    Nature Sounds

    8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

    Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not…

    August 23, 2020

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    Songwriter

    Wishful Sinful: atypical harmony of Robby Krieger

    Wishful Sinful is a song written by Robby Krieger for The Soft Parade released in 1969 by The Doors and considered to…

    August 19, 2020

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    Music Theory

    Popular songs using Lydian mode

    In Western music, the vast majority of classical compositions and popular songs are written using only two diatonic…

    July 26, 20206 comments

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    Bansuri

    Hindustani flute by Ronu Majumdar brings meditative mood to classical ragas

    Ronu Majumdar is the most influential Indian flutist of our time whose impressive output touches upon most aspects of…

    July 12, 2020