December 7
We remember folk storytelling's conscience Harry Chapin on his birthday today in 1942, the singer-songwriter whose narrative masterpieces like "Cat's in the Cradle" and "Taxi" addressed life's regrets while his tireless hunger activism made him as important offstage as on before his highway death in 1981… Progressive rock mourned one of its majestic voices on this day in 2016 when Greg Lake died at 69, ending the life of the King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer bassist-vocalist whose powerful singing on "Lucky Man" and "From the Beginning" brought soul to prog's complexity… Bohemian barfly poetry's master Tom Waits celebrates his 76th birthday today, the gravelly-voiced songwriter whose Los Angeles night-crawling characters and experimental soundscapes have made him one of music's most respected and influential outsider artists across five decades… British pop harmony splintered today in 1967 w...
