Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] There was a good article in a recent Trains magazine about the legend of John Henry. The story is a perfect man vs machine battle (low-tech vs hi-tech). The legend goes that a powerful worker named John Henry died after successfully outperforming a steam drill during the [...]
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Music Mondays I don’t always like bluegrass covers of rock and roll songs, but I do like this one for some reason. It’s Town Mountain playing I’m On Fire (the Bruce Springsteen song). Click the links to listen to previews or download. Here’s a video of a live version. Tweet
Rolling Stone magazine reports: Bruce Springsteen has responded to his fans’ outcry following Ticketmaster’s problem-laden sale of his Working on a Dream tour tickets earlier this week. Countless fans reported technical malfunctions during the onsale, while others complained that Ticketmaster forwarded them to the company’s secondary ticket site, TicketsNow, even though seats were still available [...]