Doc Listens to "1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die"

"I got to keep movin'", Johnson sings in the opening lyrics of Hellhound on My Trail , and move he did. Reports say that he sp...

One lonely dark Mississippi night, a young Robert Johnson took his guitar to a crossroads near Clarksdale and began playing a tune. Arou...

"The First Family of Country Music" laments their way onto the list with the mournful Can the Circle be Unbroken . The Carter ...

Hula Girl brings about visions of laying on a sunny beach in the south Pacific with a fruity umbrella-dressed cocktail in hand. What ma...

Lydia Mendoza or "The Lark of the Border" as she was later known, recorded "Mal Hombre" just before her eighteenth b...

Here is a song that sums up the uncertainty, betrayal, and hopelessness felt by many of the 1930's depression era. It's the harr...

Oh those sultry, steamy, sensual dirty blues. How many innuendos can Bessie Smith place into one suggestive song without being brutally ...

Cab Calloway was the sultan of smooth during his heyday in the 1930s.  And his mastery of the nonsensical singing known as "scattin...

El Manisero or "The Peanut Vendor" was a Cuban-style song based off the cry of the salty snack-selling street salesman. The up...

St. James Infirmary Blues is a derivation of an old 18th century English folk song about a boy who dies from a venereal disease contract...

This simple love song, written in the Maori language, is extremely important to New Zealanders( and even Aussies). Considered to be New ...

Another entry and another recorded first. Lagrimas Negras, Spanish for "Black Tears" , is the first of a Cuban genre of music ...

The first Cajun song officially recorded. This accordion-laced upbeat slice of the Bayou helped bring to life an entire genre of gator-w...

Bessie Smith, one of the most popular and talented blues singers of all time, paired with a very young Louis Armstrong on cornet, sings ...

So, the first serving that this book has to offer is sung by the opera giant, Enrico Caruso. He belted out this particular recording in ...

I am not, by any stretch of one's imagination, a musician. Nor am I an expert on music. I never found myself downloading thousands of so...