Overdrive Radio s new Songs of the Highway podcast series explores important trucking songs. This week s episode focuses on a historic trucker song from 1928.
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Since I have now completed my two countdown radio shows for the Top 50 albums of 2020 see the big takeover “radio” button above to hear one song from each! here is my complete list of the 180 best albums, 100 best archive/retrospective/reissue releases, and 100 best stand-alone singles and EPs of this previous year my best bets on another great year for music, old and new.
And in one of the worst years of our lifetimes, here’s a small tip of my well-worn ballcap in profound gratitude to the artists below, for giving us this music to listen to while stuck at home. Perhaps half the below had already been recorded and was in process before COVID-19 shut us all down, which also curtailed many a scheduled recording session to go with all the cancelled tours.
2021 New Music Releases
The early slate of 2021 new music releases is unusually full, after several albums were pushed back in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, being off the road apparently gave others space to complete studio recordings.
Alice Cooper found inspiration in his hometown – but that doesn t mean he slipped into easy nostalgia. He says
Detroit Stories will have a lot of different flavors, admitting that he liked breaking out of the mode where an Alice Cooper album sounds like an Alice Cooper album.
Former Van Halen bassist Wolfgang Van Halen will also release his new band Mammoth WVH s debut album early in the year. He s already issued the first solo single, Distance, which honored his late father Eddie Van Halen, and announced his first show.
: The country legend was 29 years and 11 months old when he died of alcohol and drug abuse on Jan. 1, 1953. He left behind such classic songs as “Jambalaya (on the Bayou)” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” Tony Bennett had a 1951 smash with Williams’ “Cold, Cold Heart.” George Hamilton played Williams in the 1964 movie
Your Cheatin’ Heart. Lifetime Achievement Award: 1987
Keef Cowboy: The hip-hop artist, a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, was 28 years and 11 months old when he died of a drug overdose on Sept. 8, 1989. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, which recorded the 1982 classic “The Message,” is slated to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.
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