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LONG TRAIN RUNNIN´: Big Book Coming

Their 1976 album Best of the Doobies has sold more than 12 million copies, achieving the rare Diamond Certification by the RIAA (less than 100 albums in the history of modern music, across all genres, have done this).

Christian McBride Speaking well of CHICK COREA

In March 2016, McBride was named artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival, succeeding the festival's founder and artistic director, George Wein.

MUDDY ROAD AHEAD

Unlike most other pop singers, Page blended country music styles into many of her songs. As a result of this crossover appeal, many of Page's singles appeared on the Billboard Country Chart. In the 1970s, she shifted her style more toward country music and began having even more success on the country charts, ending up as one of the few vocalists to have charted in five separate decades.
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PASS IT ON: Weekend Walkabout volume 10

Today we have news to share on just about every art form you could think. So, whether you go tell it on the mountain and shout it to the sky, or down to the river toi skim it across to the other side please feel free to PASS IT ON
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER

"Readers will surely feast on all the behind-the-scenes candy featuring the likes of Bono, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, and countless other stars, plus media icons like Annie Leibovitz and Hunter S. Thompson." Vanity Fair

STEELY DAN: WHAT´S IN A NAME?

“Song For My Father” influenced many in popular music over the years, including the opening horn riff for Stevie Wonder’s “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing” and Earth Wind & Fire’s opening bass notes for the song “Clover.”  

DONNY OSMOND; a change of perception

everybody is interested in my song that was itself inspired by one that Justin Bieber wrote. When I saw the video for his song "Lonely," I thought, Boy, if anyone can relate to that story, it's me, because I've been through the same thing. So I wrote "Life After Loneliness," because in it, I talk about the fact that he's a star, and that light that he has will never dim because he's the real deal. He's made the leap that I've been able to - to get away from the teenybopper thing and have people recognize me as a writer and a musician. He's made some odd decisions in his life, but he's found love and some normalcy to his life. So, that song, "Lonely," inspired "Life After Loneliness" on my album.
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build another shelf? LET´S DO IT

Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers
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REVEREND RICHARD COLES has books to write

“I’ve worked with prisoners who were coming to the end of sentences for terrible crimes. The kind of crimes for which there is no forgiveness, I think, but when you get to know people and you walk alongside people with that kind of history, you don’t have to go far back to see they were victims too before they were aggressors. Once you get that sort of picture of people it’s hard not to feel compassion… We must judge as we would wish to be judged, and that is with compassion.” Crime novels also express a reality—that life is all light and shade,

KNOPFLER KRONIKLES (part 10 concluding) One of The Boys In The Bands

British author and humorist Douglas Adams said about Knopfler, in his book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish: "Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink."