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Songwriter
Lawdy Miss Clawdy: how Lloyd Price's first hit mixes blues and classics

Lawdy Miss Clawdy is a rhythm and blues track that kicked off the career of the prolific New Orleans songwriter Lloyd…

January 31, 2021
Songwriter
Marie Laveau: ballad of the legendary Voodoo Queen

Dedicated to the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau was composed by award-winning writer Shel…

January 29, 2021
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
Songwriter
Misty Mountain Hop: Led Zeppelin's contribution to pot legalization

Misty Mountain Hop is an iconic 1971 Led Zeppelin song the title of which is associated with the mountains described by…

January 16, 2021
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
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
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
Music Theory
Authentic cadence exemplified by The Beatles songs

In theory, a cadence refers to a harmonic turnaround that appears at the end of a musical phrase, and the role it plays…

November 29, 2020
Songwriter
Bennie and the Jets: the opening piano chord and disastrous recording sessions in Jamaica

Bennie and the Jets is inarguably one of Elton John's most popular songs first released on the Goodbye Yellow Brick…

November 26, 2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Songwriter
Baba O'Riley or Teenage Wasteland brought to life by Lowrey organ

The now-iconic album opener Baba O'Riley was first released on the fifth studio album by the English rock band The Who…

September 20, 2020
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
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
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
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
Synthesizer
Plainsong: The Cure's psychedelic liturgy on the edge of the world

Plainsong is the opening track of the album Disintegration released in 1989 by the English rock band The Cure. The…

July 19, 2020
Music Theory
Deceptive cadence: chord progressions and song examples

In music, cadences play a crucial role in the organization of musical phrases and sentences. The concept of cadences is…

July 9, 2020
Songwriter
Savoy Truffle: cautionary song about chocolate by the quiet Beatle

Savoy Truffle is one of four songs written by George Harrison for the 1968 album The Beatles, also known as the White…

June 14, 2020
Album
Surrealistic Pillow as the ultimate psychedelic experience pioneered by Jefferson Airplane

Released in 1967, Surrealistic Pillow was Jefferson Airplane's second album which not only set a departure point for…

January 19, 2020
Album
Swordfishtrombones: groundbreaking instrumentation catches Tom Waits' signature sound

Released in 1983, Swordfishtrombones became the first self-produced album by Tom Waits that not only established the…

October 23, 2019
Orchestra
Mozart and Tom Waits wrote music for the glass armonica which was rumored to cause mental health damage

The glass armonica is one of many curious instruments that came into use with small ensembles during the transition…

September 3, 20191 comment