Blues legend John Mayall turns 75 years old today and we'd like to wish him many more birthdays to come! Perhaps the most important and influential bandleader in the British...
Lizzie Douglas, better known as the Chicago blues legend Memphis Minnie, was born on this day in 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana. By her early teens, she was playing banjo and...
The force of nature that was Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as Chicago blues legend Howlin' Wolf, was born this day in 1910 in West Point, Mississippi. Named after the...
There are several difficulties in trying to figure out a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ride. The biggest of them is the fact that so many people love the book, the radio show, the movie, the television show, or one of the forms of it so much that they might have problems with any new interruption. The other challenge is that of creating a fun “ride” that has the audience sit stationary watching everything unfold on a screen. It’s a different type of medium than I used last time out with The Sword in the Stone ride, but, it’s still fascinating. Sunday, May 17: 8:00 - 9:00PM Nature - “Victoria Falls.” I don’t know about you, but I just don’t think it’s right that Nature is doing an entire episode on a poor woman falling down. Sure, she didn’t have that little pendant
Blues guitarist Albert King was born this day in 1923 in the rural Missisippi Delta town of Indianola. King would be raised in Arkansas, however, and taught himself the guitar...
His instrument always seemed to be in a very good mood.
Teenage boys in the 1950s were not that much different from now in at least one respect -- risqué double-entendres usually made us snicker and dig an elbow into our friends' sides. That might have helped explain why a relatively unknown keyboardist named Dave Cortez rocketed to the top of the charts in 1959 with a song called "The...
Getting there before the idea was even a twinkle in Chris Cornell's eye, this is Blues meets Hip-Hop at it's best.
John Hammond is no stranger to the blues. With over 40 years of experience and 31 records under his belt, he has tapped his goliath blues sound straight from the source. There are precious few artists that can reinvent themselves at age 64, but John Hammond has never been one to do things by the book. Taking on the young, innovative, and longtime...
