Posts by Steve Lubet

My first post on Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" was in 2018. It was timely then and it is sadly even more timely now. On January 28, 1948, a plane crashed in ...

"Let the Good Times Roll" has been the title of several songs, perhaps best known today as the lead track on BB King's 1999 album of the same name. That ...

"Delta Dawn," written by Larry Collins and Alex Harvey, is best known for then 13-year old Tanya Tucker's 1972 hit, but it was actually recorded a year earlier by Bette ...

In 1966, "Paint It Black" was the Rolling Stones' first song featuring the sitar, and only the second by a rock group with sitar (after the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood," which ...

"The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" is a traditional Scottish song, with various adaptations dating to the eighteenth century. The "low road" refers to death, of either a lover or ...

The Statement with a frequently updated list of signatories is here. Statement from Jewish faculty and staff at Northwestern University As Jewish faculty and staff at Northwestern University, we write…

Paul Butterfield's iconic "Born in Chicago," the first cut on his first album, was written by Nick Gravenites (who was in fact born in 1938; but that didn't rhyme with ...

"This Magic Moment" is probably the second best known composition by Doc Pomus and his writing partner Mort Shuman. The first, of course, is "Save the Last Dance for Me," ...

Sam Moore and Dave Prater were originally from Miami, where they had performed individually with gospel groups such as the Sensational Hummingbirds and the Melionaires. They signed together with Roulette ...

The Brothers of the Heart are Bradley Walker, Jimmy Fortune, Ben Isaacs, and Mike Rogers. Fortune is probably best known, having been one of the Statler Brothers for many years, ...