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Dog Ears Music: Don't Have To Go To Work Today (Unless You Do) Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Earth, Bob Marley, Billy Eckstine, Gerry Mulligan, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, The Black Eyed Peas, Rodriguez, Wind & Fire, Calvin Harris, Danielle Evin, Animal Hospital, Music, Big Walter Horton, The National, Buffalo Clover, The The, mp3s, Eddie Vedder, Artie Shaw, Phil Ramone, Efterklang & the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Delta Spirit, ZZ Top, Peter Frampton, Matt Elliott, Paul Weller, Dog Ears, Florence + the Machine, Dinah Washington, Middle Class Rut, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week we review albums by The Black Eyed Peas, Matt Elliott, Bob Marley, Dinah Washington, and more.

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Burr Oak Tragedy's Mastermind Sentenced To 12 Years

Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Burr Oak Cemetery, Burr Oak Cemetery Scandal, Grave Reselling, Emmett Till, Burr Oak Bodies, Burr Oak, Jesse Jackson, Willie Dixon, More Bodies Burr Oak, Graverobber, Archaeology, Dinah Washington, Carolyn Towns, Chicago News

Fifty-one-year-old Carolyn Towns, of Blue Island, pleaded guilty and was convicted of a bevy of charges related to her oversight of an under-the-table...

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Country's Cousins: Conversations with Diane Schuur and America's Got Talent Winner Michael Grimm

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Michael Grimm, Sarah Vaughn, Kevin Hunter, Stan Getz, Bill Harrah, Otis Redding, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bobby McFerrin, Stevie Wonder, Hurricane Katrina, Diane Schuur, Pat Benatar, Dinah Washington, B.B. King, Jackie Evancho, Simon Cowell, Stevie Nicks, Vince Gill, Rod Stewart, Bill Medley, The Faces, Ian McLagan, Wire Train, Patti Page, Nancy Wilson, Green Valley Ranch, America's Got Talent, Greg Leisz, Supernatural, Buddy Rich, Ray Charles, American Idol, Kenny Aronoff, Ann Wilson, Larry Carlton, Don Was, Energy Force, Count Basie, Grammy, Joey Reynolds, Monterey Jazz Festival, Concord Records, Alsion Krauss, Doris Day, Jeannie Seely, Heart, Bob Clearmountain, Edie Gorme, Willie Nelson, Kay Starr, George Shearing, The Manhattan Transfer, Steve Buckingham, Barbra Streisand, Travis Tritt, Floyd Cramer, Mark Knopfler, Judy Alberti, Ed Shaughnessy, Waddy Wachtel, True Blood, Barry Manilow, Smokey Robinson, Grp, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

For her new album, Diane Schurr says: "The one thing that I did purposefully on this was, number one, not to do it with a twang, and number two, I wanted it to please both people that are into country and people that are into jazz."

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News
Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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"TV Is the Thing This Year": My Playlist for the Emmy Awards

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, The Good Wife, Loudon Wainwright III, The Stylistics, Billy Joel, Conan O'Brien, Lost, Arcade Fire, The Tubes, Television, Joe Jackson, ZZ Top, Marshall Crenshaw, Cheap Trick, Taj Mahal, Dinah Washington, Ben Folds Five, A-Ha, Tv on the Radio, John Fogerty, Green Day, Wilie Colon, Bob Hope, The Stooges, Wilco, George Clooney, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Emmy Awards, Tift Merrit, Dianne Reeves, Michael Penn, Mad Men, Talking Heads, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Men of a Certain Age, Dire Straits, Randy Newman, Ben Lee, Jimmy Fallon, Bruce Springsteen, Entertainment News
David Wild

Far be it for me to ever correct the Boss, but as it turns out Bruce Springsteen was not a true televisionary; there are not "57 Channels And Nothing On" these days. Please tune in Sunday night, and see for yourself.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in August Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tony Bennett, Van Morrison, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, David Crosby, Danielle Evin, Marco Joachim, Leonard Bernstein (Sung by Tom Waits), Jim Reeves, Music, Isaac Hayes, Mae West, Maria McKee, Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Charlie Haden, Shirley Manson (Garbage), mp3s, John Lee Hooker, Louis Armstrong, Phil Ramone, Alice Coltrane, Keith Moon, Charlie Parker, Dog Ears, Dinah Washington, Claude Debussy, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week, we feature music by Mae West, Isaac Hayes, Louis Armstrong, Van Morrison, and more.

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My Heart Cries for Mitch Miller

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frank Sinatra, Percy Faith, Ben E. King, Ray Charles, Al Cernick, Mitch Miller, Elvis Presley, Dinah Washington, Jerry Lewis, Guy Mitchell, Connie Francis, My Heart Cries for You, Theme From a Summer Place, Carl Sigman, Dean Martin, Columbia Records, Entertainment News
Michael Sigman

Mitch Miller, the musical maven of middle-of-the-road pop who died in Manhattan Saturday at 99, became a household name via his early-'60s TV show Sing Along With Mitch.

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Dog Ears Music: Holiday Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amos Milburn, D.J. Santa & the Dance Squad, Dave Matthews, Run-Dmc, The Beach Boys, Joe Sample, Neil Sedaka, Snow Patrol, Dolly Parton, Otis Redding, Casey Shea, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Horace Andy, Pedro the Lion, The Who, Dave Brubeck, The Klezmonauts, The Shootist, Jack Benny, Dinah Washington, Amalia De Granada, Laura Nyro, Matisyahu, Kurtis Blow, Chris Brown, St. Petersburg & Valery Gergiev, Ron Sexsmith, Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Itzhak Perlman, Kodo & Tan Dun, Keith Richards, Elvis Presley, Maria McKee, Mandy Patinkin, Macy Gray, mp3s, Leonard Cohen, The Trammps, Joan Osborne, Christmas Symphonic Players, Jack Johnson, Phil Ramone, Justin Timberlake, Frank Sinatra, Remy Zero, Eddy Arnold, Danny Elfman, Mickey Katz, Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, The Ramones, Steve Earle, Neil Young, Music, Iain Archer, Aretha Franklin, Spike Jones, Jane Siberry, The Long Winters, Tony Bennett, The New 2 Live Crew, 2 Live Jews, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob Marley, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong & the Commanders, Mary J. Blige, Barbra Streisand, Tim Finn, Danielle Evin, José Feliciano, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Richard Swift, Harry James, The Raveonettes, Yoshida Brothers, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Alison Krauss & Natalie MacMaster, Astrud Gilberto, Adam Sandler, Snoop Dogg, Woody Herman, Dog Ears, Marvin Gaye, Holiday Season Commentary, Music and Religion, Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

A comprehensive set of holiday music recommendations from Dog Ears Music, including Otis Redding, Spike Jones, The Klezmonauts, Keith Richards, Run-DMC, Dolly Parton, The Beach Boys, and many more.

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