music

It's not often that I do a blog about another blog, but this blog is definitely blogworthy, especially if you're a concertgoer.

You "kids" might not be familiar with the term "vinyl".  They're those circular, groove filled discs that you would place on another round thing that turns at 33 1/3 or 45 revolutions per minute (look it up).  Well, actually you don't have to.  HBO is about to either school you or provide a great bit of nostalgia, depending upon age.

Everyone argues over what is and what is not "country music" these days. Truth is it is an ever changing entity and that has always been the case with the genre. If that weren't the case we would still be listening to "swing" or "rockabilly" or "outlaw country". None of these incarnations of country were bad then or now, they were just new and different at t

Countryfest 2015 is less than a week away, so I thought I’d post a little story about one of the stars that we’ll see on July 11 at The Schaghticoke Fairgrounds (Hope you have your tickets). Like almost every country music star, Countryfest 2015 artist Craig Campbell didn’t become famous overnight...

I remember when we first played the Easton Corbin song ‘A Little More Country Than That’ on WGNA, I honestly thought that it was George Strait.

Ahhh- commercial jingles.  Gotta love 'em.  It's amazing how you can recognize a product in just 3 notes. They're very powerful and even more so when you try to play the songs with the actual products.  (This might need to be seen to be believed)

Ok, I will be away until Thursday  of next week, but in the meantime I would love to come back with a town to write about and a lot of information to go on.

Can you think of anything better than an Air Force band of talented heroes completely nailing an Adele song?  No. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Angie Johnson and Sidewinder perform a cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep." Sidewinder is part of the 571st Air Force Band, 131st Bomb Wing, Air National Guard...

This is an exciting bit of news - especially for Albany High.  This was a once in a lifetime opportunity for a local marching band to play Irish tunes IN IRELAND

The Albany Marching Falcons (from Albany High School), will be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in a very special way.

I'm trying to spread my wings a little bit.   My school program has always been for elementary students and that will continue. But I'd like to try an experiment

On Monday afternoon, we had the pleasure of having one of the nicest people and rising star Ruthie Collins stop by the WGNA studios.