May 28
Swamp rock's greatest voice John Fogerty celebrates his 81st birthday today, the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman whose "Proud Mary" and feuds with his brother Tom proved that working-class rock could achieve massive success while his decades-long legal battles over the CCR catalog became rock and roll's most bitter sibling warfare… We remember blues guitar's founding electric pioneer T-Bone Walker on his birthday today in 1910, the Texas guitarist whose single-string solos and showmanship influenced everyone from B.B. King to Chuck Berry while establishing the template for modern electric blues before his death in 1975… We honor Jefferson Airplane's most distinctive voice Papa John Creach on his birthday today in 1917, the violin virtuoso whose electric fiddle proved that classical instruments could dominate psychedelic rock while his Hot Tuna collaborations with Jack Casady stretched jam band possibilities before his death in 1994… Sou...
