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10/19/2026

This Bird Flew The Coop: On this date (Oct. 19) 60 years ago, English rock band The Yardbirds descended on New York City for its first U.S. tour with guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

But after completing only two dates of the tour, a moody and unpredictable Beck quit the group, leaving Page to handle lead guitar duties.

Beck later resurfaced to form his own band The Jeff Beck Group, giving raspy-voiced Rod Stewart his first major exposure.

10/16/2026

Nashville Cats Play Dead: Nashville-based psychedelic-rock jam band Tin Roof Cats paid homage to the Grateful Dead and its home state with a righteous cover of “Tennessee Jed” on Thursday (Oct. 15) at Stanley’s Pub in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The band’s cover of “Dark Star” sounded like the Grateful Dead jamming with space-rockers Hawkwind. Wild stuff.

For the second set, the band slipped into its alter ego called OmCat, performing otherworldly originals.

The band is currently on tour. Check ‘em out.

10/16/2026

Remember Bobby Today

10/15/2026

On this day (Oct 15) 1973, Dolly Parton released ‘Jolene’ as the first single and title track from her album of the same name. According to Parton, the song which peaked at No. 1 on the Country charts was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband Carl Dean at his local bank branch when they were newly married. ‘Jolene’ is the song most recorded by other artists, out of all the songs Parton has written.

10/15/2026

Strange Song Scores Hit: In 1971, a song about cannibalism called “Timothy” charted in the top 20.

The song, written by Rupert Holmes of “Escape” (Pina Colada song) and performed by The Buoys, tells the story of three people who fall into a mineshaft and survived by chomping on one of their luckless companions, Timothy.

Holmes intentionally used cannibalism for the song in order to get banned by radio stations, hoping the ensuing controversy would attract listeners to the song.

It worked. When the song was aired by a few radio stations, it wasn’t long before others stations started banning it from their playlists.

But it was too late, a legion of young listeners called radio stations to play the song. Fearing their competition would play the song, radio stations lifted their ban, resulting in the song becoming a one-hit wonder.

The Buoys disbanded, with two of its members forming a band called Dakota, which performs the song in this video.

10/15/2026

This video features a live 1975 performance of the classic Fleetwood Mac song, “Rhiannon.” This era of the band is significant as it marks the beginning of their most commercially successful period shortly after Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the lineup.

Did you know?
* ��Stevie Nicks wrote this song after reading a novel about a Welsh witch named Rhiannon, mistakenly believing the character was a goddess.

🎥 YouTube/Rock Through Time
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10/14/2026

Wayback Wednesday: Scottish hard rock band Nazareth scored a major hit in 1975 with its cover of “Love Hurts”.

The band’s power ballad earned a coveted top 10 spot on the US. Billboard Hot 100. It also ranked high on music charts in Canada, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, Norway, where it charted for more than a year, and elsewhere.

Nazareth’s cover of the song, written by American songwriter Boudreaux Bryant and originally recorded by the Everly Brothers, is the most popular version.

The song also has been covered by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris as a duet, Roy Orbison, and Traffic percussionist Jim Capaldi.

Did-You-Know Department: Nazareth took its name from a Pennsylvania town, which is cited in the first line in The Band’s song “The Weight”.

10/14/2026

10/13/2026

On this day (Oct 13) 2016, Bob Dylan became the first songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and the first American to receive the award since 1993 (when the honor went to writer Toni Morrison).

The Swedish Academy honored him “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

From “Blowin’ in the Wind” to “Like a Rolling Stone,” Dylan proved that song lyrics could stand alongside the world’s great literature. A groundbreaking moment in music history. 🎸📖