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Fear Of Flying: Top Ten Most Mysterious Airplane Incidents

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Air France 447, The Big Bopper, Sully, Buddy Holly, Amelia Earhart, Northwestern, Ritchie Valens, Bermuda Triangle, Payne Stewart, Northwest Pilots, Joe Sharkey, Colgan Air Buffalo, TWA Flight 800, Don McLean, Capt. Sullenberger, Living News
Glynnis MacNicol

The most recent addition to this list is last week's report of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 plane, which overshot its destination by 150 miles.

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HuffPost Reviews: Pearl Jam, Monsters of Folk and More, Plus an Interview with David Gray, and This Week's New Albums

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Conor Oberst, Monsters of Folk, Aimee Mann, Los Lobos, Son Volt, Brendan O'Brien, David Gray, Uncle Tupelo, Matthew Sweet, Ally McBeal, Orba Squara, Don McLean, Best Buy, The Avett Brothers, The Beatles, Wedding Daze, Grateful Dead, Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, George Thorogood, Johnm Lennon, Entertainment News, Billy Squire, Annie Lennox, Iphone, The Thorns, My Morning Jacket, Cat Stevens, Harry Connick Jr., The Band, Pete Droge, Wilcon, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

So this is what Pearl Jam would sound like after hanging with George Thorogood. It's great to hear the guys trying on old school rock 'n' roll and putting their moniker on it.

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Mew At The Troubadour, John Mellencamp's No Better Than This, and Stephen Schwartz Gets Five For Fighting

Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Five for Fighting, Conor Oberst, Wicked, David Roe, John Mellencamp, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Don McLean, Entertainment News, Bo Madsen, The Troubadour, David Lynch, Willie Nelson, Bright Eyes, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

John Mellencamp says his next album was made in part at Sun Studios. "Everything was set up exactly as Cash and Elvis Presley recorded."

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Folk U (Day 2): 10 Best of the Fest Moments

Michael Bialas | Posted 09.19.2009 | Denver

Read More: Over the Rhine, Karin Bergquist, Folks Festival, Rescue, Colorado, Lyons, Susan Tedeschi, JJ Grey & Mofro, Linford Detweiler, Don McLean, Denver News
Michael Bialas

Here's a look at highlights and the final four acts of the 19th Rocky Mountain Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado.

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A Preposterous Pre-Digital Primer

Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Journalists, Lps, Montclair Times, George W. Bush, Born-Again Christians, Nixon's Enemies List, Dinosaurs, American Pie, Internets, Commuter Trains, Mashed Potatoes, Albums, Typewriters, The Day the Music Died, E-Mail, Viral, Sony Walkman, President Bush, Ipods, Swine Flu, Revival Theaters, Computers, Paper Airplanes, Cds, DVD Players, Don McLean, Laptops, Prehistoric, President Nixon, Going Viral, Bush Administration, Mel Gibson, Digital Age, Internet, Enemies List, Phonograph Records, Cell Phones, The Passion of the Christ, Huffington Post, Comedy News
Dave Astor

In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.

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New Tunes On Monday: Little Walter, Prince, James Taylor, John Wesley Harding, Paul Carrack, and Matthew Barber

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ace, The Drifters, Prince, Dionne Warwick, The Eagles, Squeeze, Scott Dirks, Mike + the Mechanics, Harvard Square, Breaking Dawn, Target, Juno Award, Xtc, Whitesnake, Oklahoma, Folk, Paul Carrack, Tony Glover, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cajun, Philly, Reggae, Traditional, Checker Records, Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, Stephanie Meyer, Marvin Gayes, Timothy B. Schmit, John Wesley Harding, Sam & Dave, Michael McDonald, Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Johnny Cash, Ron Sexsmith, Stan Lewis, Nick & Nora's Infinite Playlist, High Fidelity, Billy Davis Jr., Singer-Songwriter, Philly International Records, Hip-O Select, Bill Withers, Entertainment News, Al Green, Aaron Neville, Lawrence Stern, Ray Charles, Pop, Americana, Dobie Gray, Jill Barber, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bria Valente, Broadway, Canada, Grammy, The Kinks, Stax, Motown Records, Livingston Taylor, The Beatles, Matthew Barber, Nick Heyward, Harmonica, Don Henley, Phil Collins, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Little Walter Story, Hear Music, Arthur Crudup, Stax Records, R&b, Motown, Sam Moore, Chess Records, Harry Nilsson, Johnny Nash, Gospel, Bobby Womack, David Gray, Wesley Stace, Willie Dixon, Bob Dylan, Blues, The 5th Dimension, David Seitz, Tom Waits, Juno, Washington Square Park, Grammy Awards, Don McLean, John Wesley Hardin, A Mighty Wind, Roots, Randy Newman, Ward Gaines, Ben E. King, Jimi Hendrix, James Taylor, Rupert Holmes, Bruce Springsteen, Listerine, Nilsson, Atlantis, Misfortune, Rumpelstiltskins, Josh Ritter, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Blues harmonica player and singer Little Walter died over forty years ago, but his influences still can be heard in many blues-rock recordings that employ the instrument.

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The Day the Music Died

Michael Pattison | Posted 03.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Texas, The 1970s, Buddy Holly, Tommy Allsup, Folk Music, Waylon Jennings, Singing, American Pie, Music, Lubbock Texas, Rock and Roll, 1970s, Don McLean, Entertainment News
Michael Pattison

Don McLean saw February 3, 1959 as The Day the Music Died, but really it was the day the legend of Buddy Holly was born.

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