Category: Musicians

Pearl Mae Bailey was never formally trained in music. Instead, she got her training at her father, the Reverend Joseph James’s “Holy Roller” evangelical church in Newport News, Virginia. That said, I could not find out what vocal style she had, which thought it was a contralto, but no site has any information on it. […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

​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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The AC/DC Young brothers are legendary, what was so special about them?

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 […]