It's raining and raining and...

WTF, Larry (Curb reference)!  Was that For What It's Worth as background music to a Direct TV ad???  Way to rail against corporate greed, Stephen Stills!

Brother Joe and Nancy stopped by for dinner on Sunday and Bro Joe helped himself to some johnnykmusic from my iTunes.  Didn't say which ones.  Nancy and I shared a Red Guitar, not for an old fashioned strum-along (I know you have visions of a rowdy Jumpin' Jack Flash), but rather a wine that is a rich and smooth celebration of the Spanish lifestyle.  Cheers!

   

This Friday, Ronnie Spector will perform the only performance this year of her 'Beyond the Beehive' show at the Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook, CT. It's Ronnie's story in word, picture and song as she takes you on a journey from Spanish Harlem to the Peppermint Lounge to Beverly Hills to CBGB's when  she goes 'Beyond the Beehive'.

Wardell Quezergue Sr., the bandleader, producer, composer, arranger and educator whose contributions to a plethora of New Orleans rhythm & blues classics earned him the moniker "the Creole Beethoven," died Tuesday morning at East Jefferson Hospital of congestive heart failure. He was 81.  His credits include Jean Knight's smash "Mr. Big Stuff," the Dixie Cups' "Iko Iko" and "Chapel of Love," Professor Longhair's recording of "Big Chief," Robert Parker's "Barefootin,'" King Floyd's "Groove Me," Dorothy Moore's "Misty Blue" and Dr. John's landmark 1992 album "Goin' Back to New Orleans." (more)