The Sages tell us that when you really get down to it there are only seven stories in the world. And, that these are endlessly retold and recast so that the human race can come to terms with the ...
The Mississippi River is a wonder of nature. From its source in Lake Itasca Minnesota it flows 2320 miles all the way to Plaquemines (love the sound of that name!) Parish Louisiana and the Gulf o...
Bomp-ba-domp-ba-domp, ba-domp-domp. Bomp-ba-domp-ba-domp, ba-domp-domp. Bomp-ba-domp-ba-domp, ba-domp-domp. A true message, a strong signal always gets through. People are waiting. People are alw...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2016/02/12/the-boss-the-band-buddy-holly-blitz-bo-diddley/
When you get down to it, when you really get down to it – rhythm rules. Before you can utter a sound you can feel and respond to the rhythm of your mothers beating heart. And it’s your first ...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2016/02/09/bo-diddley-rhythm-rules-rhythm-rules/
‘In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed … Death is swallowed up in victor...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2015/12/15/johnny-cash-brother-claude-ely-aint-no-grave/
In my youth, in the interests of conviviality and scientific research into plant biology, intoxication and rock and roll excess I developed quite a taste for the distilled beverage of the blue ag...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2015/11/17/tequila-the-champs-the-best-b-movie-b-side-ever-made/
Sometimes a song, a blues song, filled with venom, emerges into the world coiled, contained and poised to strike. A song which as the venom circulates round the listener’s bloodstream commands ...
Now, to be clear your Honour, I can’t say for certain that Bob Dylan has a Jukebox and if he has I can’t be 100% sure which artists it features. But, but, I have to say that there is enough �...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2015/10/16/riding-high-on-bob-dylans-jukebox-warren-smith/
‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ (Isak Dinesen) ‘There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some ...
British Beat – Some Other Guys 2 John Lennon, with characteristic force, once famously observed that before Elvis there was nothing. When you consider the lamentable history of Rock ‘n’ Rol...
https://theimmortaljukebox.com/2015/09/18/before-the-beatles-billy-fury-wondrous-place/