Tom Lane's Music Blog

Black America sings Stevie Wonder - Various Wednesday Morning 6AM-Radio Hits from the Small Hours 70-83 - Various Mitski - Nothing's Abo...

   April 1968.  I'm a month away from turning four years old.  I don't think I remember these songs from that month.  But artists?  ...

  I wrote this piece two days after Prince died on April 21, 2016.   Prince's albums up until the mid-90's are uniformly strong.  As...

  It wasn't until 1990 that I started listening more intently to Americana music.  Most of my listening habits until then were taken up ...

   I joined host Nick Bambach and 3 others to talk about the 2026 Rock Hall inductees. Rock in Retrospect

   The first time I saw Whitney Houston was in 1983 on the Merv Griffin show.  She sang "Home" from The Wiz .  It was a great perf...

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