I've posted before about Andrew Hickey's excellent podcast "The History of Rock and Roll in 500 Songs" but a recent episode is just epic. For song #177 he takes on the old folkloric ditty "Shortnin' ...

Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson declared a vintage folk song "the greatest ever," and it's a pick that stops music fans in their tracks. Beloved 70s shock rocker Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson ...

The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson is behind some of the most acclaimed classic rock songs of all time. Interestingly, he told Alice Cooper the greatest song ever written was not a rock song. Subsequently, ...

“Life's short,” says the promotional postcards for Long Beach's cutesy neighborhood bakery Shortnin Bread. “Eat dessert first!” So one morning I decided to take that advice and held out on breakfast ...

Delbert McClinton fittingly begins Acquired Taste, his 13th studio album and first in four years, with a boogied-up version of “Shortnin’ Bread”, the traditional folk classic. It nicely declares the ...