Shakira is a talented lady, no doubt. Her voice warbles like a bird; she can dance up a storm, and she writes poetry in her native Spanish as a hobby. That said, I do not think her talents extend to having two birthdays that span years.
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Ciaran Bourke was a founder of the Dubliners. He came from a wealthy family who hired an Irish nurse from the countryside. She taught him Gaelic (Gaeilge) and appreciation of traditional music and jigs. Inspired by her, Ciaran, as an adult, gathered a band of like-minded Irish musicians and taught them the same, thereby keeping the traditional music alive. RTE, Ireland’s National Public Service Media, has some more on this for his tribute in their archives. Food, Guinness and Saveur And if you want to have a traditional Irish meal to enjoy it with see over here on the Saveur…
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Tom Waits, a singer composer from California, is a mixture of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen — the former he’s covered and the latter who covered him with “Jersey Girl.” Waits seems to be a likable sort; Hal Willner, a friend of his, had him on his Disney theme, Stay Awake — I’ve highlighted some of his songs for week forecasts, so finally I am doing his chart…it is his birthday. The right sound and the scruffy look His father is Irish, his mother Norwegian, a close approximation of Jackson Browne, another balladeer who is German- Norwegian, but the sound…
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Naomi Judd died on Saturday, April 30, 2022 at 76 the night before her induction in the Country Hall of Fame. Celestiology is interested in what brought this about. Her daughters Wynonna and Ashley Judd said in a statement that they had lost their mother “to the disease of mental illness.” Her husband, a former backup singer for Elvis Presley, has made no comment. The wording of the family’s statement was heavily scrutinized on social media. Many fans felt the phrasing rang true, given Naomi’s openness about her struggles with depression and suicidal ideation. Others criticized the statement as frustratingly…
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Mark Lavon Helm was the drummer of the Band, the backup band to Bob Dylan. They were rather unknown until they scored big at Woodstock, an event that Levon, as he was popularly called, so impressed him, he is buried there in the Catskills (the New York version of the Pennsy’s Poconos and separated by a sliver of water). Levon has a lot of great aspects in his chart that would make him a drummer — a preponderance of Earth, mainly in Taurus but Neptune in Virgo in the second suggests this will bring him a comfortable living. That was…
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The Rolling Stones’ website eponymous website, not a single word of his demise, just a full-screen photo of Charlie Watts in a pea coat, wedding band and smirk. Charlie Watts was a class act. This August, Watts age 80, said he would not join Rolling Stones for their 2021 “No Filter Tour,” a 13-date tour begins September 26th in St. Louis and wraps November 20th, right before Thanksgiving, in Austin; but within the month Charlie was gone. While not specified, the Watts’ spokesperson announced the drummer had undergone a successful medical procedure, but the drummer he needed time from which…
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Don, was born Issac Don in Brownie Creek Kentucky, on February 1, 1937 and two years before bandmate Phil, to Margaret (nee Embry) and Ike Everly. They were recording since they were six years old thanks to their parent’s radio station on KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa. Both boys attended Longfellow elementary school in Waterloo, Iowa, and the brothers finished their school days at West High, Knoxville, Tennessee. Don is the brunette; Phil the blond.
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In the 1964 At the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, the annual folk music festival where Bob Dylan made his name, was still a folk musician in the shadow of the Weavers and Woody Guthrie. Ronnie Gilbert, a member of The Weavers, a Greenwich Village Folk art music band, introduced him and made a tactical mistake by saying to the audience “And here he is… take him, you know him, he’s yours.” Fast Forward same place a year later A year later, on July 25 1965, at the same venue, Dylan, who had an entire year to stew on that comment, went…
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James Henry Neel Reed a master fiddler, banjoist, and harmonica player, he is the brother on the right of the header picture, had an amazing repertoire consisting of hundreds of tunes, as well as multiple performance styles all memorized by heart. He was professionally known as Henry Reed, and was born on April 28, 1884, in the Appalachian Mountains of Monroe County, West Virginia. As I do not have an exact location, I picked Zenith West Virginia as it is in the mountains and it has a propitious name: Henry Reed was the zenith of banjo playing.
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The AC/DC Young brothers are legendary, what was so special about them?
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Marty Robbins may have been born in the mountain deserts of Arizona on September 26, 1925 , but with a Grand Trine in Water the Navy was a sure bet. Neptune in the eighth is the key to the great love song of El Paso, his greatest hit, not only because it highlights the fatal love song but also as the fishy planet receives no major aspects, thus making it an unaspected planet. This makes Neptune, the planet of fantasy, romance and music and song, very important in Marty’s chart and that he was highly inspired by the songs of…
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George Redburn Young started out as a guitarist in the Sixties with a band called the Easybeats. Chances are unless you search for it on Youtube you’ve never heard of them. He died at the age of 70 on October 22, 2017 in Singapore. But as co-producer of AC/DC’s first five albums, there he not only made his name but fortune. He was the older brother of the band’s Angus and Malcolm Young, who confirmed his death on Facebook. “It is with pain in our heart that we have to announce the passing of our beloved brother and mentor George…
