All posts by Jack Brenn

  • Woodstock 1969

    Getting there wasn’t easy — but plenty of people showed up. Woodstock is celebrating 50 years as a musical institution and these images show the hopeful optimism of a fledgling cultural revolution. Fresh, young faces, splattered by...

    • Posted August 15, 2019
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  • Donny Hathaway — In The Ghetto

    Donny Hathaway – LETHAL SOUL MUSIC It was the early 70’s – maybe 1972. I was about 12.  My mom was in her late 40’s and my parents played the hell out of Donny Hathaway ’s album,...

    • Posted January 18, 2019
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  • Justin Timberlake races into Lexington

    Justin Timberlake, “The Man of the Woods” Tour It’s been 11 years since Justin Timberlake toured to support the “FutureSex/LoveSounds” album and the crowd at Lexington’s Rupp Arena was happy the wait was over. They are a...

    • Posted September 21, 2018
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  • How To Celebrate National Bourbon Day

    Bourbon & Beyond Celebrate National Bourbon Day At The Big Bourbon Bar Bourbon & Beyond, the world’s largest bourbon festival, once again proves it will celebrate America’s native spirit in a way never seen before with the...

    • Posted August 9, 2018
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  • Backstory: Billy Joel. We Didn’t Start the Fire

    Billy Joel, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” 40 Years of World History in under 5 Minutes “We Didn’t Start the Fire” is Billy Joel’s 1990 number one hit referencing more than 100 headline-making events between 1949, the...

    • Posted July 7, 2018
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  • Neil Diamond’s “America”

    “ America ” came out on The Jazz Singer soundtrack in 1980 as a tribute to American Immigration. It starred Neil Diamond as a young Jewish man who must defy his father to follow his dreams of...

    • Posted July 4, 2018
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  • Ray Charles, “What’d I Say” Backstory

    “What’d I Say” is Ray Charles’s first Top 10 pop single and the greatest improvised song in rock & roll history. After playing every song he knew and still having 12 minutes to fill, Ray Charles composed...

    • Posted June 24, 2018
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  • Breaking The Band w/ Van Halen

    The Reelz Channel has a new series out and this Sunday it profiles Van Halen. Check your local channel listings and set your DVRs. About Breaking the Band  Sold out tours, chart-topping hits, and runaway world domination can...

    • Posted June 15, 2018
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  • John Lennon and The Number 9

    Mysteries related to the Beatles and John Lennon’s use of the number 9 Before discovering numerology, John Lennon had been aware of the strong presence of the number 9 in his life but hindsight allows an examination...

    • Posted October 20, 2017
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  • CHARLES BRADLEY Soul of America

     Feed Your Soul w/ Charles Bradley   On this 4th of July weekend, instead of watching Tom Cruise battling in Vietnam or battling mummies, try Soul of America, a documentary by Poull Brien charting the extraordinary rise of then...

    • Posted July 3, 2017
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