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americansongwriter.com | Peter Burditt
While the Americana genre tag is a fairly new phenomenon created mainly to differentiate pop country from more traditional and roots-oriented country, the music in the genre has been around for decades. The music embedded in the genre includes a fusion of bluegrass, blues, country, southern rock, and folk. So, as you might imagine, Americana music, even though the tag didn’t formally exist at the time, was big in the 1970s.
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flipboard.com | Peter Burditt
1 day agoDonald Trump sold us a different kind of Pax Americana. The U-S-led global rules-based order was always about soft power backed by bulk military might.Trump's rules on Inauguration Day veered instead to the utilitarian: yes to the world’s top superpower staking imperial claims to parts of the …
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1 week ago | 
americansongwriter.com | Peter Burditt
The months of May and June have been awfully hot for Bruce Springsteen. In May of 2025, Bruce Springsteen made headlines by making comments about Donald Trump while on stage in Europe. Also, Springsteen will release Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a box set consisting of seven previously unreleased albums, next week. Now, in light of that news, he recently acknowledged that Tracks III is already completed and will feature five more albums.
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americansongwriter.com | Peter Burditt
The Beatles have 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. That is more than enough. However, The Beatles had a surplus of album tracks that seemingly also could have peaked at No. 1 if they had been released as singles. Some of those tracks include “Here Comes The Sun”, “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”, “Eleanor Rigby”, “Blackbird”, and arguably their most tragic song, “A Day In The Life”. The Beatles’ “A Day In The Life” resides on their infamously career-defining album, Sgt.
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flipboard.com | Peter Burditt
5 hours agoEverybody Loves Raymond probably doesn’t make you think of The Beatles, but it just might now. On Monday, June 16, at the Paley Center in New York City, Everybody Loves Raymond stars Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton and Maggie Wheeler, creator Phil Rosenthal and producer Tom Caltabiano reunited to …
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americansongwriter.com | Peter Burditt
Keith Richards found himself in trouble with Johnny Law a lot. He also found himself getting out of trouble in unexpected ways and by the hair on his chin a lot. That was his life for a good many years, and a good many people helped him escape his criminal issues, one of those people, surprisingly, being the executive producer of Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels. In 1977, Keith Richards’ drug addiction was seemingly at its height.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Peter Burditt
13 hours agoTim Bagley says he couldn't audition for 'SNL' in the '80s: "They would not hire openly gay people" - QueertyI was out as a gay man and people knew that they would not hire openly gay people.
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americansongwriter.com | Peter Burditt
In entertainment media, one of the most commonly used narratives is the romance between two celebrity figures. It’s a tale as old as time, and one we’ve all seen across every single genre of music and medium of entertainment. Hence, it has been a part of the country music scene ever since its mass popularity. However, like most of these romantic narratives, they were entirely false and created for a sensationalist response.
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americansongwriter.com | Peter Burditt
In 1967, Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer, and Mick Fleetwood started Fleetwood Mac. However, this was not the same Fleetwood Mac that ruled 70s pop culture and became one of the most successful bands of all time. Rather, this was a Fleetwood Mac that was heavily steeped in the 60s counterculture and seemingly cared more about musical experimentation than musical entertainment. Though that all changed when Green left, and when Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham arrived subsequently.
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americansongwriter.com | Peter Burditt
In a rock ‘n’ roll band, the typical order of popularity goes as follows: the lead singer, the guitarist, the bassist, and then the drummer. Sometimes, the bassist and drummers have switched places. Regardless, drummers are very rarely one of the more popular figures in a band, and there are a plethora of bands that have upheld this paradigm. However, every so often, a drummer comes around so charismatic and colorful that they just can’t be contained to the back of the stage.
