Mick Jones Of Foreigner Credits The Songs

For a brief moment yesterday I felt like a rock star. One minute I was on stage lecturing about Broadcasting to college students... Then poof I was in a room interviewing one of biggest names in Classic Rock. Mick Jones of Foreigner isn't afraid to talk about how his band has always fit in. There was a slight challenge in the 1990's called Grunge. But that didn't silence one of Classic Rock's most successful touring bands. I asked him if it was his leadership. He quickly pointed to the songs. Mick and Foreigner are currently on the road with Kid Rock.

George Thorogood Is Ready For Studio Time

George Thorogood talks about his next music project. George Thorogood's headed back into the recording studio. It's his first release since 2011. But this time it will be without his long-time band, The Destroyers. He says a solo acoustic record is something he has wanted to do for a long time. He tells us, "Some of them will be songs that I already did and some that I have been working on but never recorded. Pretty much a straight solo blues record." Thorogood is on the road this summer with Brian Setzer.

David Crosby Acoustic Tour

Classic Rocker David Crosby is on a solo acoustic tour. He says being up there alone is like sitting in his living room. The very second the songs were given birth. Appearing at "Kerrville Folk Festival" Sat 06/06/15 Kerrville, TX Quiet Valley Ranch Tue 06/09/15 Miami Beach, FL Fillmore Miami Beach At Jackie Gleason Theater Wed 06/10/15 Fort Pierce, FL Sunrise Theatre Fri 06/12/15 Clearwater, FL Capitol Theatre Sat 06/13/15 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Tue 06/16/15 Durham, NC Carolina Theatre Wed 06/17/15 Charlottesville, VA Paramount Theater Fri 06/19/15 Morristown, NJ Mayo Performing Arts Center Appearing at "Clearwater Festival - Great Hudson River Revival" Sat 06/20/15 Croton on Hudson, NY Croton Point Park Mon 06/22/15 Alexandria, VA The Birchmere Tue 06/23/15 Harrisburg, PA Sunoco Performance Theater Thu 06/25/15 New York, NY Town Hall Sun 06/28/15 Munhall, PA Carnegie Library Music Hall Of Homestead Tue 06/30/15 Albany, NY Hart Theatre @ The Egg Thu 07/02/15 Ridgefield, CT Ridgefield Playhouse Fri 07/03/15 Westhampton Beach, NY Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Sun 07/05/15 Bethlehem, PA Musikfest Cafe At ArtsQuest Center Mon 07/06/15 New Bedford, MA Zeiterion Performing Arts Center

Bowie Tops The All Time Favorite List

The music critic Neil McCormick from the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper has taken the time to compile a list of the 100 Greatest Songs of All-Time. David Bowie's "Life on Mars" tops the list. McCormick says, "For me, a great song is about melody and lyric dovetailing together to become more than the sum of their parts, evoking ideas and emotions... A truly great song takes on a kind of intrinsic life of its own. Its genius manifests when sung a cappella, by anyone, from a towering vocalist to an amateur alone in the shower." Bowie actually bookends the list -- "Space Oddity" is number-100. "I really do albums for different reasons. I don't have one way of approaching an album. As each year rolls around and the seasons change and one changes and the environment certainly changes, one's reasons for making music change quite drastically. That's always affected me very much."

Grateful Dead 80 CD Bix Set

Grateful Dead has announced a new release. A box set featuring 80 cd's. The journey may almost be over but not the stories from the members that made the music their reality. The band played 2,318 live shows. The most in music history. The new box set carries a $699.98 price tag. The good news is... the memories are priceless. The box set will also be available for a limited time on a USB drive shaped like a gold lightning bolt.

Route Billy Joel

Billy Joel must be good. A section of Route 107 in Oyster Bay, New York is about to be named after the Classic Rocker. Oyster Bay is home to Joel's motorcycle shop, 20th Century Cycles. If the bill is approved, Billy will be the second artist in the state with a road dedicated in his honor. In 2013, Route 375 in Ulster County was renamed Levon Helm Memorial Boulevard. Helm, who died in April 2012 from cancer, lived in nearby Woodstock, New York.

The Story Behind Start Me Up

We know the songs. But do we know the journey? What happens inside a studio that changes the path that will soon become the songs we sing? Ronnie Wood talks about Start Me Up. He says,“The way that ‘Start Me Up’ was born reminds me a little bit of this song we just recorded in Paris called ‘Don’t Stop.’ It’s a heavy guitar riff song that, I don’t know, just slips in and it seems to make sense, ‘cause it’s so simple. But it takes on a different face when you actually put in context with the live reproduction of it.”