This day (March 11, 1950), in Manhattan, New York, is born Robert 'Bobby' McFerrin, a virtuoso American vocalist.

This day (March 11, 1986), in Mineola, New York, died Saunders Terrell a.k.a. Sonny Terry, an American Piedmont blues harmonica player.

Joe Satriani's 'Crystal Planet' is his seventh studio album released on March 3, 1998 by Epic Records.

Todd Rundgren's 'Something/Anything?' is his third (and his first double) album released in February 1972 by Bearsville

Gary Clark Jr.'s 'This Land' is his fifth album produced by Jacob Sciba and released on February 22, 2019 by Warner Bros.

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Langston Hughes was my first introduction to writing. I remember checking out a book of his poems at the library in elementary school

USA Today

He laughs, more bitter than amused. “I got a pearl Cadillac. I loved that car. But cops would pull me over, and I’d get squad cars on me for no reason... American Songwriter

According to Clark, the neighbor had approached him and said, “Who owns this house?”, refusing to believe it could belong to someone who looked like Clark.

Gary Clark Jr. - This Land

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Buddy Guy celebrates his 77th birthday with Gary Clark Jr. and Quinn Sullivan plus Tom

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'The Yes Album' by Yes is their third ( and first with guitarist Steve Howe) studio album, released on February 19, 1971 by Atlantic.

Joni Mitchell's 'Night Ride Home' is her fourteenth album released on February 19, 1991 by Geffen.

This day (February 17, 1949), in Heathfield, Sussex, England, is born Fred Frith, an English multi-instrumentalist.

Sérgio Mendes' 'Timeless' is a collaborative album produced by will.i.am released on February 13, 2006 by Concord.

Robert Wyatt's 'Dondestan' is the sixth studio album recorded in February 1991 and released in 1991 By Rough Trade.

The Doors' 'Morrison Hotel' is their fifth studio album released on February 9, 1970 by Elektra.

John Coltrane's 'Soultrane' is his fourth album recorded on February 7, 1958 and released the same year by Prestige Records

'Love, Marriage & Divorce' by Toni Braxton & Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds is their first duet album released on February 4, 2014 by Motown.

Bill Evans' 'Explorations' is an album recorded on February 2, 1961 with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian and released in March 1961 by Riverside.

This day (February 1, 1969), in Berkeley, California, is born Joshua Redman, an American jazz saxophonist and composer .

Bright Eyes' 'I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning' is their sixth studio album produced by Mike Mogis and released on January 25, 2005 by Saddle Creek

Aretha Franklin's 'Young, Gifted and Black' is an album (its title being borrowed from the Nina Simone song 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black) released on January 24, 1972 by Atlantic.

The Rolling Stones' 'Between the Buttons' feat. 'Ruby Tuesday' & 'Let's Spend the Night Together' is their fifth studio album, released on January 20, 1967 by Decca.

Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' is his fifteenth studio album recorded in New York City and Minneapolis and released on January 20, 1975 by Columbia Records.

Key Moments

• The avant-garde Derek Jarman includes in the video for "Dance Hall Days" by Wang Chung children, balloons, nymphs, and World War II bombers, not necessarily in that order.
• Meanwhile, in "Shake Your Foundations," AC/DC get secret agents dancing and that's the end of Betty's Burger, and the blue men in Steve Winwood's "While You See A Chance" try to climb a pyramid
• Abba's "Under Attack" was such a flop that they waited nearly 40 years before releasing their next single.
• Not to mention Cactus World News, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, The Polecats, The Triffids, The Colourfield, The Cult and Zapp.

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This day (January 8, 1937), in Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales (UK), is born Shirley Veronica Bassey simply known as Shirley Bassey.

Neil Diamond's 'September Morn' is his thirteenth album released on December 22, 1979 by Columbia.

Willie Dixon's 'Willie's Blues' is his debut album recorded on December 3, 1959 with Memphis Slim on piano and released the same year by Prestige Bluesville.

Nicole Wray, 702, Keith Murray, Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa, Mary J. Blige, Group Therapy, The Afros, Buddha Monk, Missjones, Beverley Knight, Mica Paris

Ella Fitzgerald's 'Ella Swings Lightly' is a studio album recorded on November 23-24, 1958, with the Marty Paich Dek-tette and released the same year by Verve

'The Beatles' is their ninth eponymous studio album also called 'the White Album' produced by George Martin and released on November 22, 1968 by Apple.

Bruce Springsteen's 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' is his eleventh studio album (and second acoustic) co-produced with Chuck Plotkin and released on November 21, 1995 by Columbia Records.

Michael Bublé's "love" is his tenth studio album featuring Cecile McLorin Salvant and Loren Allred on one track each, produced by David Foster and released on November 16, 2018 by Reprise Records.

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I'm not healing the world in some magical way, but I love that I can be a small part of making people feel better ...

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“I had allowed the songs to choose me as opposed to me choosing the songs.” Irish Examiner

Where some sees charm and showmanship, others discern smarm and saccharine.

Michael Bublé - love

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Released on October 9, 2009, "Crazy Love" is the sixth studio album by Michael Bublé. >>

"Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden" is his third live album released on June 16, 2009. >>

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Mariah Carey's "Caution" is her fifteenth studio album featuring rappers Ty Dolla Sign, Gunna, Slick Rick and Blood Orange and released on November 16, 2018 by Epic Records

Rolling Stone

....the majority of the tracks are kiss-offs aimed at those who have doubted her or left her scorned....

Billboard

don't mean to be rude, but take your shit and leave. It's called "GTFO," but it's quintessential Mariah DGAF. Entertainment Weekly

And on her 15th studio album, the breezy, pleasingly defiant Caution, she finds a freshness that’s been missing from her recent material.

Mariah Carey - Caution

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Mariah Carey 's 'Daydream' is her fifth studio album co-written and co-produced by Walter Afanasieff, released on October 3, 1995, by

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Ice Cube's 'The Predator' is hise third studio album (his best selling) released on November 17, 1992 by Priority/EMI.

James Brown's 'Soul on Top' is an album recorded on November 10–11, 1969, with conductor Oliver Nelson and Louie Bellson & his orchestra and released in 1970 By King.

Lou Reed's 'Transformer' is his second studio album released on November 8, 1972 by RCA.

Q-Tip's 'The Renaissance' is his second studio album featuring D'Angelo and Norah Jones among other guests, co-produced with J Dilla on one track and released November 4, 2008 by Universal Motown

Keane, Johnny Cash, Biffy Clyro, DJ Shadow, Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & The Cryptkickers, Weezer, Bowling For Soup, Kate Bush, Papa Roach, Bloc Party, Jane's Addiction, Sunna

Joe Satriani's 'Flying in a Blue Dream' is his third studio album released on October 30, 1989 by Relativity Records.

Prince's '1999' is his fifth and breakthrough studio album released on October 27, 1982 by Warner Bros.

'Robbie Robertson' is his eponymous solo debut album co-produced with Daniel Lanois and released on October 27, 1987 by Geffen.

David Crosby's 'Here If You Listen' is his seventh album recorded with Becca Stevens, Michelle Willis and Michael Teague of Snarky Puppy and released on October 26, 2018 by BMG

USA Today

At age, 77, David Crosby is a “lion in winter” – sage in the ways of the world he serenades, with leonine hair and a history of stirring up trouble through song

Washington Post

Crosby shows great taste and artistic smarts in giving The Lighthouse Band, as the collective is known, a more prominent presence Billboard

Crosby addresses his own mortality, singing “I've been thinking about dying/ and how to do it well.” It’s a tough subject, but one that he tackles head-on

David Crosby - Here If You Listen

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'Raising Sand' by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss is a collaboration album produced By T-Bone Burnett and released on October 23, 2007 by Rounder.

Thelonious Monk's 'Thelonious Alone in San Francisco' is his second solo album, recorded on October 21 and 22, 1959 and released the same year by Riverside.