Allison Krauss, Robert Plant and T-Bone Burnett (far right)
Texas artists landed 30 nominations in 20 categories when the contenders for the 51st annual Grammy Awards were announced today, including all five nominees for Best Tejano Album and four of the five Best Norteno Album contenders. All of this year's nominations are in what pols would call down-ballot categories, though.
The only Texan up for any of the four major awards - Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year, Best
Mahalia Jackson
The 12 days of Christmas begin Thursday and run until Epiphany, January 5. Here is a song for half those days. See what's in the other half tomorrow morning.
12. "Silent Night," Mahalia Jackson. The supreme Christmas melody requires the supreme voice, and if anybody's ever sung it prettier or more powerfully than Mahalia Jackson I haven't heard it. There are different renditions floating around. While some are better than others, all are devastating.
11. "Santa Looked a Lot L
Barnett Newman's "Broken Obelisk," dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr., outside the Rothko Chapel/ Image by A D Forman
Note: Because Monday's performance was a religious service, no photography was allowed.
Thanks to Monday's MLK Day and Tuesday's inauguration, among other reasons, Aftermath has been thinking about the intersection of faith, music and religion a lot lately. Obviously, even during one of the darkest periods anyone under 80 can remember during our lifetimes, this na
Screw those pink sparkly Daisy Rock guitars. Chicks can stroke the neck of a Fender Strat right alongside the guys. The best girl rockers also deliver some of the wickedest vocals out there and, as an added bonus, usually look damn sexy doing it.
Rocks Off thinks it's high time to give these sirens some special attention. To kick off the inaugural Vamplification, here are three female rockers you may not have heard of, but whose music is as dangerous as those Greek femmes fatale who serenaded s
