This Train

This page is dedicated to the traditional American folk song ‘This Train,’ also know as, ‘This Train Is Bound for Glory.’ Origins of this song are unknown, but it has been sung and handed down in the American South for over 100 years.  Read more…

Sgt. Pepper is 44 Years Old Today

The Beatles album Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on this day in 1967, forever changing rock and roll, and music as a whole. Tracks like A Little Help from My Friends, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Lovely Rita, When I’m Sixty-Four, Good Morning Good Morning, A Day in the Life, Read more

Roger McGuinn and the Regency TR-1

Long before iPods, CD’s and Walkmans there was the transistor radio. The advent of the transistor radio is integral to the history of rock and roll. The first transistor radio, the American-made Regency TR-1, arrived on the scene in 1954 about one year before the Sony transistor. In this video Roger McGuinn, founding member Read more