January 20

 

Celebrating the birthday today of Huddi William Ledbetter (Leadbelly) today in 1888...

 

On this day in 2011, Etta James died from complications of leukemia at the age of 73...

 

Today in 2015, Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream) died of a pulmonary embolism at age 70...

 

Today in 1965, American disc-jockey Alan Freed died from uremia at the age of 42...

 

Questlove was born today in 1971...

 

George Grantham (Poco) is 76 today...

 

Paul Stanley (Kiss) is 71 today...

 

Today is the anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” in 1975