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R.I.P. Jimmy Carter – Rock-and-Roll president, Black music’s first White House advocate…oh, and a nuke hero, too!

December 29, 2024 DJ Rob

(December 29, 2024). There was kind of a groovy side to former president Jimmy Carter…a side that his peanut-farming, country boy image overshadowed during much of the time he spent…

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R.I.P. Angela Bofill; Her best song was never released as a single, but it’s a stone classic: Ranking her ten greatest!

June 16, 2024 DJ Rob

(June 16, 2024). Often when a singer/songwriter with incredible talent and the voice of an angel passes away, people begin reflecting on (and streaming) that artist’s greatest hits, especially those…

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The surprisingly low-key way Billboard covered Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1977 plane crash (and how I never whiffed this 45-year-old ‘Smell’ of theirs until now!)

March 8, 2023 DJ Rob

(March 7, 2023). Admittedly, I’m not a guy you’d see in line to catch the legendary southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd in concert. Something about a bunch of strung-out white…

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R.I.P. Valerie Heywood of the famed Chic Strings; Paying tribute with her best contribution to the group…

November 8, 2019 DJ Rob

(November 9, 2019). We’ve lost yet another of the talented musicians who played with one of the 1970s’ greatest disco/funk/R&B bands, Chic. Ms. Valerie Heywood, former Chic Strings member, died…

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R.I.P. Craig Mack (1970-2018): Recalling His 15 Minutes Atop Bad Boy’s Empire

March 15, 2018 DJ Rob

Do you remember where you were when you first heard Craig Mack’s 1994 rap classic, “Flava In Ya Ear”? I remember being in a record store in Houston that August…

R.I.P. Jimmy Carter – Rock-and-Roll president, Black music’s first White House advocate…oh, and a nuke hero, too!

R.I.P. Angela Bofill; Her best song was never released as a single, but it’s a stone classic: Ranking her ten greatest!

The surprisingly low-key way Billboard covered Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1977 plane crash (and how I never whiffed this 45-year-old ‘Smell’ of theirs until now!)

R.I.P. Valerie Heywood of the famed Chic Strings; Paying tribute with her best contribution to the group…

R.I.P. Craig Mack (1970-2018): Recalling His 15 Minutes Atop Bad Boy’s Empire

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