PASSING OF ANOTHER LEGEND

(RNN) – Country music legend Merle Haggard died Wednesday morning on his 79th birthday in California. He had suffered several health issues late in life, including pneumonia in December 2015. He described himself as being “nearly dead” with doctors concerned he had lung cancer but were unable to tell until the pneumonia was gone. Haggard …

FAME AND SUCCESS

If you really want to know who an artist really is, you just talk to his tour bus driver. Driving down the road in the middle of the night on some lonesome highway, the most common thing is for the artist to sit in the jump seat next to the driver and discuss the “issues …

BARRY MCGUIRE

For anyone growing up in the 60’s it was a fantastic time musically, it was hard to keep up with the new bands, Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Who, The Stones, etc, etc. I was a guitar player for the “Common Ground”, a band who opened for some of those bands who left …