My favorite James Taylor song, “Millworker,” written for a musical version of Studs Terkel’s brilliant Working project, which was drawn from his interviews with a wide spectrum of working men and ...
Hard work is a universal thing — that’s why the songs of Bruce Springsteen are so popular around the world. Bruce Springsteen famously says he’s never had a job, yet a large portion of his work ...
“I was a trumpet player until the iconic soundtrack to ‘Titanic’ got me into piano, which eventually led to my dreams of becoming a film composer,” Keller said. It wasn’t long before he was writing ...
Today (September 4) is Labor Day. The national holiday celebrates the laborers in the United States, those who toil every day to make sure bridges are safe and infrastructure is up to par. If we don’t ...
In honor of Labor Day, here’s a stab at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people. Woody Guthrie. (CC) In honor of Labor Day, I’ve revised a previous attempt at ...
SUMMERS: This is Lake Roland Park. It's a place where, as the pandemic upended everything, musician Marcus Brown would come to clear his head - literally to go touch grass or a tree. MARCUS BROWN: You ...
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store Ernie Ford’s recording of Sixteen Tons ...
...The Flood Warning continues for the following waterways and locations in Indiana...Illinois... Driftwood River near Edinburgh. Wabash River at Vincennes, Mount ...
WAUWATOSA - FOX6 WakeUp talked to the President of Just Live Inc., Robert Stevens, about the 14th anniversary of the Labor of Love Music Festival. The festival is held at Hart Park in Wauwatosa on ...