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Eric Wolfson
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Putting the ERIC back in AmERICa. Author of “Fifty Years Of The Concept Album” & “From Elvis In Memphis,” the 150th volume in the 33 1/3 series. www.ericwolfson.com
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#RIP Garth Hudson, the last living original member of The Band, & a dazzling multi-instrument master in his own right.

Endlessly innovative, he played the clavinet through a wah-wah pedal on #UpOnCrippleCreek & the dense swirling organ on #ChestFever, his signature.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/a...
Garth Hudson, One-Man Band Within the Band, Dies at 87
A multifaceted musician, he was the last surviving original member of an influential group that mixed rock, r&b and an Americana sound.
www.nytimes.com
Happy 81st Birthday to
#JimmyPage!

One of rock’s finest guitarists, #Page began as a studio musician (that’s him on #PetulaClark’s #Downtown), as a member of #TheYardbirds, & the founder of #LedZeppelin.

Among the classics he cowrote are #StairwayToHeaven,
#BlackDog, #RockAndRoll, & #Kashmir.
Looking for an Elvis gift for yourself or a loved one to celebrate his 90th Birthday?

Check out my critically-acclaimed book on Elvis’s “From Elvis In Memphis,” which is part of Bloomsbury’s legendary 33 1/3 book series:

#Elvis #ElvisPresley #Elvis90 #ElvisAt90 #RockHistory a.co/d/6QFeoY4
Happy 90th Birthday to Elvis Presley!

He doesn’t look a day under 1956.

#Elvis #ElvisPresley #RockHistory
RIP #JimmyCarter, one of the most underrated presidents & the greatest former president.

He was also a personal hero of mine & a frequent subject of my art.

My first & only solo art show was called cARTer & was all portraits of #Carter.

This was the painting from the postcard made for the show.
Turns out the three branches of government are Legislative, Judicial, & Elon Musk’s ego.
I think Sirhan Sirhan’s long game was that he loves polio.
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“A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command—of his head.” FDR 1939 www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ra...
Truman’s words are still 100%, but they’re outdated.

An even bigger difference is that now Republicans will repeatedly lie, cheat, & gaslight just to hold onto power.

& now they will be using that power to punish anyone who disagrees with them.

Did we Nazi this coming?
Today in 1967, a legendary icon of American music tragically died in a plane crash at the age of 26:

The Great #OtisRedding.

#RockHistory
Today in 1966, #TheWho release their #AQuickOne LP.

The title track is the final song, an expansive mini-opera format that inspired the way to #Tommy & #Quadrophenia.

Their definitive performance of #AQuickOneWhileHesAway was the crown jewel of #TheRollingStones#RockAndRollCircus.

#RockHistory
The Who, Michael Lindsay-Hogg - A Quick One (While He's Away)
YouTube video by TheWhoVEVO
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So much for protecting the police.
Trump said that rioters on January 6 had "no choice" but to assault police officers

If any Democrat in the country publicly justified the assault of a police officer it is all you would ever hear about for years

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Today in 1949, #TomWaits was born.

Kinda makes you wanna fall out of the window with confetti in your hair.

#RockHistory
Today in 1969, #MeredithHunter was stabbed to death by a member of Hell’s Angels at The #RollingStones’ free concert on the #Altamont speedway.

Hunter was 18 & the Angels were working security & paid in beer.

The event effectively ended the psychedelic dream of the ’60s.

#RockHistory
Today in 1932, #LittleRichard was born.

Among his many hits are #TuttiFrutti, #LongTallSally, #GoodGollyMissMolly, & #KeepAKnockin’.

Rock as we know it would not exist without him.

“I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!”

#RockHistory
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I heard this is a good place to talk about taxing the rich, breaking up big tech, and ending Washington corruption.
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The lack of self-awareness is almost impressive.
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Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.
Despite #16Magazine’s claims, the #MillionDollarQuartet photos were not taken for them, but for the #Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper.

Here’s #RobertJohnson’s original article about #ElvisPresley, #JerryLeeLewis, #CarlPerkins, & #JohnnyCash jamming at @SunRecords from Dec. 5th:
Here’s an article about the historic session from the May 1957 issue of #SixteenMagazine:

“There never was a singing combo like this before…there probably never will be again!”

#ElvisPresley #Elvis #MillionDollarQuartet #JerryLeeLewis #JohnnyCash #CarlPerkins