Melissa is a song written by Greg Allman of The Allman Brothers Band. Gregg’s inspiration came from a trip to a grocery store where he encountered a woman with her granddaughter. The child was running all about the store with the older woman calling her name Melissa. Allman who was struggling to
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06/26/2021
I was lucky to see The Band perform live in 1973 at the old Chicago Stadium. At the time, I wasn’t a big fan of The Band, I was there to see Bob Dylan, but that night I became a fan.Over the course of two hours, Dylan and The Band performed alternating sets with Bob Dylan performing his acoustic
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06/25/2021
The Moody Blues have always been one of my favorite bands. I saw them in concert multiple times and each time I walked away smiling at their live performances.Because their music is a bit more complex than most Rock bands they often employed a full orchestra to back them up in concert. The album
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06/24/2021
I don’t think you can ever have too many Eric Clapton songs in your Soundtrack. Clapton who is known for his guitar work has always professed to be a blues guitarist, but his greatest success has always been in the Rock & Roll genre.In 1992 after performing live for a new series called MTV Unplug
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06/23/2021
I have to admit when I was younger, I was not much of a John Denver fan. I preferred the music of other artists. It was not until a few years ago when I saw a documentary film on John Denver that I came to appreciate all that he accomplished as a singer/songwriter and as an actorDenver produced s
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06/23/2021
Today we are going to try something a little different. We are going change over to the Country genre and at the same time give you two versions of the same song. Back in the 1970s a lot of Country stars were crossing over to the Rock charts. These days, it seems a lot of former Rockers are cros
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06/22/2021
Most of the songs I have posted up this season have been from the 1960s or 1970s, with good reason. There were a lot of good music produced in those days. Much of it still relevant today. Yet, this Soundtrack does not have to be just oldies. We always find new music and new performers that worm
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06/21/2021
Today’s artist is a man that needs no introduction. Willie Nelson has been around what seems like forever. Actually, he hasn't been around forever. He was born in 1933 and at 88 years old is still performing to sellout crowds.Always known as a Country singer, Willie and friends perfected the out
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06/20/2021
I haven’t featured The Eagles on the Soundtrack since 2018 an oversight that I am correcting right now. After all, The Eagles are the largest selling rock band of all time.A lot of great music has come from this group since their early days when Glenn Frye and Don Henley split off from the Stone
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06/19/2021
What ever happened to the Age of Aquarius? If you ask the astrological experts, they will tell you it is still forthcoming. But in 1967 a Broadway musical named Hair, declared we were at the dawn of the Age of Aquarius.The song was the opening song for the play and later recorded and released as
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06/18/2021
