WoodyFest 2024 – Part 1 WoodyFest 2024 is in the Books The 2024 Woody Guthrie Festival was held last week in its namesake’s hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma, and it just might have been the best one yet. Okemah is right along I-40 in the heartland of east central Oklahoma. It’s about 70 miles east of […]
Various artists, The Herald Records Doowop Collection/1953–63. Like its sister label, Ember, whose doo-wop releases have recently been anthologized, Herald Records scored a few memorable hits in rock’s early years. The company topped the pop and R&B charts in 1960 with Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs’ “Stay,” for example, and also scored with the Turbans’ […]
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