Posts by Steve Lubet

"God Bless the Child" was written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog and initially released in 1942 on Okeh Records, the jazz and blues (then sometimes called Race music) subsidiary ...

"Rollin' and Tumblin'" is mostly remembered as a Robert Johnson song -- brought to Chicago by Muddy Waters in the 1950s, and reinterpreted by Cream in the 1960s -- but ...

Has any song been more enjoyable than "Bill Bailey"? Originally titled "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home," it was written in 1902 by Hughie Cannon,  a tavern piano player ...

Rainbow Girls

Jesse Fuller, the great one man band of the Bay Area, wrote and recorded San Francisco Bay Blues in the 1950s, playing 12-string guitar, harmonica, bass drum, high-hat cymbal, "fotdella," ...

My new column for The Hill explains why the Supreme Court's recent "Statement of Ethics Principles and Practices" is no substitute for an actual code of conduct. It leaves many…

In the early 1960s, Tom Paxton was one of the young folk musicians hanging out in Greenwich Village; a group that included Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Janis Ian, ...

Be sure to see the update at the bottom of this post. Sorry about the poor quality Note: I have avoided posting solo clips of Eric Clapton ever since he ...

Music begins at 1:44 Audio only: I found some other covers, but there is almost no variation in the arrangements. Well, there is this: And this: This is a different ...

My new column for The Hill provides a brief history of the Supreme Court’s refusal to adopt a code of conduct – spoiler: I was the first person to raise…