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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

   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

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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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   Poetry

   Guantanamera: meaning and origin of the Cuban song

   Guantanamera means a woman from Guantánamo, the Cuban city that gives the song its title. The word is a demonym—a name…

   December 4, 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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    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

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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

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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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    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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    Songwriter

    Easy Skanking: meaning and themes in the famous Bob Marley album opener

    Easy Skanking is the opening song on Bob Marley’s tenth studio album Kaya released in 1978 and preceding the historic…

    August 2, 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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    Songwriter

    Bésame Mucho: song meaning and source of inspiration behind the famous Mexican bolero

    Bésame Mucho is one of the most famous songs in music history that has been tirelessly performed for the past eighty…

    June 28, 20201 comment

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    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

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    Songwriter

    Twist in My Sobriety: rare oboe solo in Tanita Tikaram's best song

    Twist in My Sobriety is a song by British pop-folk singer Tanita Tikaram released as a single from her debut album…

    May 10, 2020

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    Songwriter

    Salma Ya Salama: historical record by Sayed Darwish, the father of Egyptian popular music

    Salma Ya Salama is a famous song written by songwriter Sayed Darwish who is considered to be the most influential…

    April 19, 2020

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    Music Theory

    Mixolydian mode: famous examples in classical and pop music

    In the 17th century, the major and minor scales became the basis for almost all classical music compositions. This…

    April 5, 202013 comments