James Burton

NYC's Blue Note jazz club reopening for dining with "incidental music"

Providing incidental music during Blue Note’s holiday season dining will be Eddie Palmieri, Bill Charlap, Maurice “Mobetta” Brown, Keyon Harrold, Marcus Strickland, Kenny Washington, James Burton, and more.

Elton John, Willie Nelson & more playing Jerry Lee Lewis' 85th birthday livestream

The birthday show will also feature Bonnie Raitt, Lee Ann Womack, Tom Jones, Joe Walsh, Marty Stuart, Bill Clinton, and more.

the 2009 Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans - Day 2 in pics (the A-Bones / Ira Kaplan / Flamin' Groovies reunion included)

Ira Kaplan, The A-Bones + Flamin’ GrooviesAmong the resurrected bluesmen, rockabilly cats, garage rockers and soul shouters at the eighth annual Ponderosa Stomp were various “Littles,” including Little Willie Littlefield, Little Joe Washington, Lil’ Buck Sinegal — not to mention Long John Hunter and Lazy Lester…

the 2009 Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans - Day 1 in pics

“Before Kansas City was recorded by everyone from the Beatles to Peggy Lee, the song was first released in 1952 as K.C. Loving by an obscure Houston pianist named Little Willie Littlefield…