Let’s take a look at another great institution dedicated to the rich heritage of American Music, a sister organization – Texas Music Hall of Fame. The following video features Kyle Park in “Yours and Mine”: Texas Music is as broad, deep and diverse as the geography and people of the state itself. Texas music has left an indelible fingerprint at each and every stop along the musical spectrum. Whether that stop is country, jazz, hip-hop, psychedelic, blues, gospel, conjunto, rock or any other musical style, Texans are often at the forefront of influencing or defining that particular style. Yet Texas music…
Robert Gupta in TED Talk: Between Music and Medicine
While watching Robert Gupta in TED talk: Between Music and Medicine, I kept wanting to shout at the computer: Yes! Music is power! Lest my roommate thinks I’m crazy, I kept my comments silent. But Gupta made some great points, with powerful scientific support. People, in varying stages of mental breakdown, can usually recall music before they can remember their family members. He cites the research of Dr. Schlaug, who has conditioned “new” speech centers in stroke victims. Gupta points out that music is communication and is deeper and stronger than words. He says, “…musicians have fundamentally different brains than…
Tribute to a Soul Legend – Gladys Knight
In the mid-1990s, while touring to support her ‘Just For You’ CD, Gladys Knight would say to her audiences, “I know a lot of the young artists look at me and wonder, ‘What you still doin’ here?’”. We knew what she meant. Gladys was a middle-aged woman who cut her first record in 1958–when television was relatively new. Yet here she stood, so many decades later, still recording, still packing theaters year round and still sending folks home happy. So check out this tribute to a Soul Legend – Gladys Knight. In the annals of rock and soul music, she was…