Tag Archive: popular music

Happy Birthday to the Creator of Rock ‘n’ Roll!

October 25, 2022 2:41 pm Published by Shepherd

Happy Birthday, Chuck Berry! Shed 96 Tears for 96 years. That’s how old Chuck Berry would be on October 18,...

May 17, 2022 8:27 am Published by Shepherd Leave your thoughts

This is how we partied in 2018, at the book launch party for Disruptive Play: The Trickster in Politics and Culture. And...

January 12, 2022 1:31 pm Published by Shepherd

Part 2 — Reissues: The film coincided with the latest re-release in deluxe form of Let It Be, a child...

December 1, 2020 9:40 am Published by Shepherd

Commercial and artistic triumph Workingman’s Dead established Garcia as the defining voice of the Dead. Don’t take that for granted,...

October 5, 2020 1:09 pm Published by Shepherd

Short version: You want this recently-released three-disc set if you like this album. Version version: They did a great job....

December 6, 2019 9:46 am Published by Shepherd

The Warlocks, on their way to becoming Grateful Dead. The rock impresario Bill Graham famously said of the Grateful Dead...