Lost Riders

An American singer-songwriter, Jim Lowe is best known for his 1956 number-one hit song, "The Green Door". He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality and was considered an expert on the popular music…

Herb Alpert is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s.   Check out some Tijuana Brass sometime!  In the meantime, here's a fav.

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - A Taste…

Born to a musical family in Lubbock, Texas, during the Great Depression, Buddy Holly learned to play guitar and sing alongside his siblings. Holly's style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts, which…

An American keyboardist, singer and songwriter Billy Preston is one of only two non-Beatle musicians (along with Tony Sheridan) to be given a credit on a Beatles recording at the band's request; the group's 1969 single "Get Back…

An English rock band formed in London in 1976, The Clash were key players in the original wave of British punk rock.  For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer,…

It’s a stage name and a band name.  Both musician James C. Heath and his trio is called The Reverend Horton Heat. The group formed in 1986, playing its first gigs in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood. The core members…

Wanda Jackson began performing as a child and later had her own radio show in Oklahoma City. She was then discovered by country singer Hank Thompson, who helped her secure a recording contract with Decca Records in 1954, where…

Noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists, Canned Heat was launched by two blues enthusiasts Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues"…

When Woody Guthrie wrote This Land Is Your Land, I don't think he wasn’t intending on it being a tune Americans hear at every patriotic function and holiday. He wrote it in critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless…

On February 2, 1977, David Hasselhoff made his musical debut on The Merv Griffin Show performing "Nadia's Theme", the theme song from the American television soap opera The Young and the Restless, the show in which Hasselhoff was starring at…