The Nighthawks have the juice to take the Big Boy out. The Nighthawks do have the juice to take the Big Boy out.That’s the tag line from the opening cut on this – the what? 3000th Nighthawks CD? Man, these guys just don’t quit. A bunch of Energizer Bunnies, sucking down Jim Beam and smoke between sets, sometimes during.One reason I became an occasional drifter, then a regular at...
There have been a lot of musical siblings through the years and some of them immediately come to mind, but it's difficult to imagine a group of brothers and sisters quite like the Dinnings. Over a period of several decades, they covered just about every aspect of music; including songwriting, bandleading, recording, and performing on stage and screen. And those doing the performing included a popular all-girl singing group, and a young crooner who thrilled teens with a chart-topping hit that was banned in Great Britain. (And if that wasn't enough, the family's next generation included a member of a popular modern rock group -- but more later about that.) Of course, there were nine Dinning siblings so that gave them a leg up but it's still a fascinating story, one that began with a musical childhood in Oklahoma encouraged by their father, the musical director of a
