Elvis Presley
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David Medsker
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Tell me you love me. Change. Go. Disturb this groove. Or, you know, do the opposite of all those things. Your call. It’s cool.
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Ken Shane
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Barbara Lynn’s debut single was a smash but she never managed to equal that success
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Ken Shane
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This oft-covered Christmas hit had its origins in the late 1940s
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Ken Shane
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Billy Ward launched a new era of frankness in lyrics and the careers of two future superstars
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Michael Parr and Zack Stiegler
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In this episode of In:Sound we dare to ask the question: why don’t country music fans like country music?
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Popdose Staff
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Can a song change the world? Popular music has always been looked on as something of a disposable pleasure: reflective of its times, sure, but meant to be played among…
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Ken Shane
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Celebrating the joys of the season with Otis Redding
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Ken Shane
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“The Twist” was the only 45 to reach #1 in two different years. But was the success a curse?
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Ken Shane
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You’ve heard it by Jackson Browne, but the original version topped the chart in 1960
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Dw. Dunphy
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Sylvan dishes a hunka burnin’ something on Geret Nixon.
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Ken Shane
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The Native American rock band scored a huge hit in 1974
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Ken Shane
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Johnny Ace was one of the biggest stars of the ’50s until one fateful Christmas Day in Houston
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Ken Shane
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Billy Paul’s career was not limited to one hit single
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Pete Chianca
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After running down the best 2015 albums from classic rockers and taking a look at the rock/pop and country/rootsrecords you don’t want to miss from the past year, you’d think…
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Ken Shane
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Ken Shane recommends some of the year’s best music books
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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All aboard the Clip Art Express for Dale Hansen’s holiday Elvis “tribute”
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Annie Zaleski
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We went to the Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival in Columbia, Missouri and had a lot of fun (and ate lots of BBQ!).
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Thierry Côté
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Well, he owed Toronto this much! No, Prince Rogers Nelson does not really owe anything to anyone, of course, but after speculation and confusion over two rumoured shows at Massey…
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Ken Shane
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Ken Shane pays tribute to Percy Sledge, the great Southern soul singer who we lost this week
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Pete Chianca
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One thing Barbara Barnes Sims doesn’t do in ”The Next Elvis“ (LSU Press), the memoir of her time working at Sun Records in the late 1950s, is dish — at…
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Rob Ross
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What can you say about The King that hasn’t been said, ad infinitum, over the years – especially since his passing 37 years ago? Nothing new, but there’s always something…
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Rob Ross
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I grew up in a household where the name “Elvis Presley” was worshiped and revered (as was “McCartney”, “Lennon”, “Townshend”, “Beck” and “Everly”, but that’s a whole different story). My…
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Jeff Giles and Jason Hare
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Jeff: So, Jason. Christmas music. Jason: I feel like however I respond to this is going to be the wrong response, but okay. Yes. Christmas music. Jeff: I’m sitting here…
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Popdose Staff
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Much like Pee Wee Herman, these examples of the PR shuck ‘n jive “meant to do that.”
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Brian Boone
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In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
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Matthew Bolin
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The sixth episode of Songs of Freedom focuses on the subject of cultural — especially musical — appropriation, using the inexplicable success of the “Harlem Shake” meme as a jumping-off…
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Brian Boone
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In which we look at once common curiosities of pop culture that don’t exist anymore, be it because of changing tastes, the fragmentation of culture, or merely the fickle nature…
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