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The commandments laid the foundation for law
Published: Saturday, June 1st, 2024 @ 11:49 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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A Google search on Pirates and New York City yields numerous results, including a Seattle Times article stating that in New York in 1692, “piracy was a leading economic-development tool in the city’s competition with the ports of Boston and Philadelphia.”
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 3:20 pm
By: ECU News Services
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An MSNBC guest claimed on Monday that white people had stolen every form of music in existence — with the exception of classical music — from black people.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 2:45 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A for-credit course on pop singer Taylor Swift will be offered at Harvard University for the spring semester, per the class’s instructor.
Published: Tuesday, December 12th, 2023 @ 10:37 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Decades after shelving music written and sung by John Lennon, the remaining members of The Beatles announced on Thursday they have a release date for “Now and Then” — a song that one of the most influential bands of all time says will be their last.
Published: Saturday, November 11th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In a move condemned by the international community as a harsh overreaction to Hamas terrorist attacks, the Israeli government has announced it has cut off Gaza from receiving any updates on the high-profile relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
Published: Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 @ 8:27 am
By: Babylon Bee
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The controversial Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings system for businesses made popular by BlackRock, Inc. was put on indefinite hold last month, citing a concern that people now understand what it means and totally hate it.
Published: Thursday, September 7th, 2023 @ 12:11 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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Immerse yourself in popular music and dance showing through Feb. 26
Published: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 @ 12:41 am
By: ECU News Services
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Creedence Clearwater Revival released their Cosmo's Factory album in 1970. With all the hard rock and drug culture music on the scene it was nice to get back to some good old rock and roll driving guitar and down home lyrics.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 4:22 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Central Park, New York City, Graceland, stan's music,
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 9:23 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Mona Lisas and Madhatters", from Elton John's Honky Château, was that special ballad of heart wrenching sincerity, forever etched on the collective soul of generation, which saved a lyrical moment in time, and became a gift to so many.
Published: Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 9:35 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's Friday night, I'm out of energy, the funds are tight, and I just want to kick back, and 'keep the home fire burning' with 'The Missus'.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 9:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits holds a special place in my musical heart for many reasons; not least of which, Dire Straits, led by the Knopfler brothers, came onto the musical scene with their first album, Dire Straits, 1978, at the height of the dreaded Disco craze.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 3:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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"Why Does Love Got to be so Sad?" will always be among my favorite rock 'n' roll songs, but only one version of it - the version that appears of "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs".
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Some people have a problem with remembering lyrics to simple songs.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 12:23 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Mark Knopfler, and Dire Straits helped steer my love of good music through the stinky stuff that was Disco in the late 1970's and for that I will always be thankful.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 3:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There are many love songs written over the ages littered along the American musical landscape, but few were ever written with the impact of Brian Wilson's and the Beach Boy's classic, "God Only Knows".
Published: Friday, December 31st, 2021 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Van Morrison covered this Tommy Edwards's classic, "All in the Game", on his classic album, Into the Music, released in 1979.
Published: Friday, December 31st, 2021 @ 8:52 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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One of my favorite bands from my era, which produced the best music of the 20th century, is The Band.
Published: Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 @ 6:06 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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I woke up early this morning at 3:00 AM as usual. I normally have a news show TV on for background to catch up on recent events. One news story after the other was bad news.
Published: Tuesday, December 5th, 2017 @ 8:10 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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The General Assembly will return for a fifth special session Wednesday after a Monday morning vote by the Charlotte City Council repealing its bathroom ordinance that led to the adoption of House Bill 2
Published: Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 5:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Eastern North Carolina is rich with music of all kinds but is known for having produced some of the most transformative figures in the history of jazz, gospel and popular music.
Published: Tuesday, April 5th, 2016 @ 2:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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During the "Budget Battle of 1995-1996," which caused a shutdown of much of the federal government for 27 days, I was a freelance reporter for New Jersey's second biggest newspaper.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 11:14 am
By: John William Pope Center
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He was just a poor Wilmington, North Carolina boy, but he and the devil went to Georgia. Born on October 28, 1936 he turns 78 today.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:44 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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I bought Willie Nelson’s Stardust album (1978) for my mom and dad because it included several of my dad’s favorite songs
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 6:25 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Billy was born in the Bronx, New York City but raised in a area in Long Island called Hicksville. The population density of Hicksville was about twice that of my home city of Atlanta, but it apparently had the same neighborhood cohesion where I grew up.
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2015 @ 12:15 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The original country music outlaw was and still is an unabashed iconoclast in a world of conformity
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2015 @ 11:52 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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He is a mediocre actor, a terrible singer, a real left winger, and an Oxford Scholar, but he is a patriot regardless of your thoughts on his politics. He served in the Army as a helicopter pilot and attained the rank of Captain. He also completed Ranger school which makes him a patriot in my book
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 2:40 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The distinctions between Country and pop have been blended over the years and sometimes it is difficult to draw a fine line.
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2015 @ 2:37 am
By: Bobby Tony
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As I wind down the series, I just had to present a couple of the Disco songs of the era. I have never been a dancer past the jitterbug era and never could learn the later other dances of the 60-70's including the John Travolta moves.
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 10:48 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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Jazz is a form of music, which starts with laying down a basic track, then adding different layers of interpretation. Often it includes multiple instruments weaving and bobbing around the basic melody. Great jazz is when several musicians take off on an uncharted journey through the basic chords u
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2015 @ 11:55 am
By: Bobby Tony
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I cannot say much here except it is almost impossible to sit here at the keyboard and type this without getting up and Shout. I seem to be stuck in the fifties again.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 @ 4:45 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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No trip down memory lane would be complete without a few sad songs mixed with a couple of good old boy hits by Jim Croce. But if you have ever stood in a phone booth late at night drunk as a skunk and tried to make that one call that would make all the difference in your life, then you can relate to
Published: Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 @ 11:24 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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She has so many memorable songs through the years but the ones that probably had the most soul were the ones about loving so bad it almost hurts.
Published: Tuesday, October 6th, 2015 @ 1:19 am
By: Bobby Tony
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