NPR 100 Fact Sheet Title: Blue Moon of Kentucky Artist: Words/music Bill Monroe Performed by Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys Reporter: Paul Brown Producer: Editor: Length: 12:30 Interviewees: Tom Ewing, Bluegrass Boys Bill Monroe, Singer (archive tape) Richard Smith, author Robert Cantwell, author Recordings Used: Bill Monroe was a relentlessly independent, often solitary, musician. He emerged from the backwoods of Kentucky to fashion a new kind of country music that came to be called bluegrass.

Fils De Daniel Balavoine Star Academy – En 2022, il aura atteint l’âge de 70 ans. Tragiquement, Daniel Balavoine nous a quittés le 14 janvier 1986, à l’âge de 33 ans, à la suite d’un accident d’hélicoptère survenu au Mali lors du Paris-Dakar. A sa naissance, Jérémie Balavoine avait déjà un an et demi. La mère attendait le deuxième enfant du couple, une fille nommée Joana. À la suite de cette absence difficile, le jeune garçon s’est développé isolé des médias.

What career artist is shrewder than Bonnie Raitt? She started off the 1970s working in a folk-inflected blues style that had the heft of lineage and contemporary popularity, selecting songs that would hold up well. Patient and persistent, her prime focus was being fully in her element on stage. At the dawn of the '90s, she eased through a much brighter pop spotlight with equanimity, never making us privy to her private turmoils, but prioritizing honesty about where she was in life — a woman of advancing age transcendent in an industry where that fact is often presumed to diminish a performer's value and appeal.

Sorry, Sriracha fans, your favorite hot sauce is running out nationwide. The company that makes Sriracha, Huy Fong Foods, wrote in an email to customers in late April that it will have to stop making the sauce for the next few months due to "severe weather conditions affecting the quality of chili peppers." The spicy sauce has something of a cult following, and so when the news filtered through, some fans took to social media to express their dismay and post about panic buying (with varying degrees of irony.

An updated guide to the culture of intoxicants. Many critics consider Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, published in 1821, to be the first explicit exploration of the creative process and drugs. Since then — well, there have been a few more. Whether it’s booze (writers), heroin (rock stars), or cocaine (anyone with money), we’ve long associated, and romanticized the link between, intoxicants and artists’ careers, songs, novels, and films.