Meade “Lux” Lewis didn’t just record a blues—he conjured a rolling landscape of rhythm and motion. Cut in 1928, “Honky Tonk Train Blues” demanded a great deal of the pianist: relentless drive, ...
Music commentator and admitted carrier of the "Boogie-Woogie Flu," Mitch Myers, takes us on an audio tour of the history of this unique American musical genre. From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS ...
On Sunday, April 19 at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., the Smyrna Opera House will welcome one of the finest Ragtime and Honky-Tonk pianists in the world, Jo Ann Castle from the Lawrence Welk Show, to its ...
Although Jerry Lee Lewis devoured boogie woogie at the age of ten, he soon incorporated it with gospel and country to develop his own style of rockabilly. But he always admired the giants of boogie ...
We will cross to both the Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Avalon Airshow to hear what's happening. Culinary historian Richard Foss with part two of his history of rum. Boogie Woogie pianist Ben ...