It’s A Beautiful Day
Here are five tracks from the San Francisco band, It's A Beautiful Day, featuring classically-trained violinist, David LaFlamme, and his wife Linda Baker LaFlamme. "LaFlamme" was a stage name he…
A Recording Engineer Mixes a Song
Recording engineer Daniel Duskin does a live sample mix of the Doobie Brothers' "Long Train Runnin'". This is for those of you who have never seen how a song is…
Rick Beato’s 20 Best Keyboard Intros
I'd like my piano students to check out Rick Beato's demonstration of the 20 Best Keyboard Intros of all time. Most of these are played on a conventional piano, but…
Free Drum Machine & Recording Software
Acoustica Legacy Software https://acoustica.com/legacy Cakewalk by Bandlabhttps://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk The Beatcraft drum program from Acoustica lets you create and store great sounding drum parts. The sound and performance are better and more…
The Birth of Southern Rock
Southern rock didn't appear out of nowhere. It was preceded by the "swamp rock" sounds of Creedence Clearwater Revival. A "bayou" isn't exactly a "swamp," but it's close enough. When…
Woodstock 1969
Let's take a brief look at Woodstock, a half-century later. A lot of younger people don't know this stuff, and a lot of older people have forgotten. So here's a…
90s Non-Format FM KERA
Spotify Link: KERA 90.1 FM DALLAS The KERA 90.1 FM DALLAS playlists on Spotify and YouTube cover the last incarnation of this public radio station as a non-format music station,…
Rock on FM – KDGE
Spotify Link: KDGE 94.5 FM DALLAS The KDGE 94.5FM DALLAS playlist on Spotify covers alternative rock of the mid 80s through the early 90s, though some selections go back to…
Progressive Country on FM
Spotify Link: KAFM 92.5 FM DALLAS The KAFM 92.5 FM playlist on Spotify contains only a little over 200 songs featured on KAFM, and on KAMC 95 FMArlington. I can't…
Rock on FM – KZEW
Spotify Link: KZEW 98 FM DALLAS The KZEW 98 FM DALLAS playlist on Spotify has over 450 songs covering music between 1973 and 1978. There are a few selections later…