sexta-feira, maio 15, 2026
Saudade de Johnny Cash e June Carter Cash...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 23:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, Cause I Love You, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly
Saudades de June Carter Cash...
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Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Jackson, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly
June Carter Cash morreu há vinte e três anos...
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.[5] A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.
After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.
In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and '70s.
While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.
As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs.
In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the most recognizable songs in the world of country music. In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I like her.”
Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land
Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".
One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.
She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.
She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.
Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.
June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:23 0 comentários
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, Ring of Fire, rockabilly
quinta-feira, maio 14, 2026
Saudades de Bobby Darin...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 09:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: Beyond the Sea, Big Band, Bobby Darin, folk, música, pop, Rock and Roll
Bobby Darin nasceu há noventa anos...
Viveu uma existência dramática, vindo do nada até atingir o estrelato. Bobby Darin, desde o seu nascimento, enfrentou diversas dificuldades, a começar quando, ainda na sua infância, um médico, após examiná-lo, constatou que sofria de problemas cardíacos e estimou-lhe pouco tempo de vida, devido à gravidade da sua enfermidade. Por isso decidiu viver a sua vida de maneira muito intensa. Viveu como se todo dia fosse o último.
Bobby é um exemplo de superação de sensibilidade, que encontra nas suas lembranças de infância, que nunca esqueceu, para enfrentar a vida com alegria e acima de tudo muito talento.
Entretanto, Bobby foi um conquistador, um vencedor nato, apra começar venceu uma infância extremamente difícil, porque além de ficar em casa por causa da doença, sem poder brincar como as outras crianças, não conheceu o pai, pois este abandonou a sua mãe.
Bobby cresceu num bairro pobre, e mesmo contra as recomendações do médico e da sua mãe de não fazer muitos esforços, tornou-se mais tarde umas das maiores estrelas da América.
Os seus maiores sucessos foram as canções "Dream Lover" e "Splish Splash".
A sua carreira começou graças a sua 'mãe', Holly que, ao descobrir que o filho talvez não chegasse aos 15 anos, o incentivou a aprender a tocar vários instrumentos.
Quando foi à Itália gravar "Quando Setembro Vier" conheceu no set aquela que seria a sua esposa, a também atriz Sandra Dee. Fez de tudo para conquistá-la e acabou conseguindo, mas a mãe da atriz nunca aceitou o romance deles e tentou separá-los, mas não conseguiu.
Bobby Darin casou-se com Sandra Dee em 1960, no dia seguinte ao fim das gravações. Embora a amasse de verdade, Bobby começa a brilhar mais do que a sua companheira no cinema, concorre ao Óscar, e seu brilho apaga o da sua mulher. Este talvez tenha sido o seu maior problema no relacionamento. A estrela de Darin ofuscava a da sua esposa. Em 1961, nasce o seu único filho, Dodd Mitchell Darin, e ele divorcia-se em 1967.
Lutando muito, dia após dia, percorreu um caminho que o levou dos duvidosos clubes noturnos até ao seu destino de sonho, o Copacabana, onde levou multidões ao delírio com as suas interpretações. Ele era o máximo, tanto quando cantava, quanto quando escrevia as canções ou quando tocava, apesar da doença que o perseguia desde a sua infância.
Isolado e confuso, foi obrigado a confiar nos seus amigos, na família e no seu extraordinário talento para acalmar os seus demónios e aceitar quem era e o que a sua vida significou.
Foi indicado para um Óscar e ganhou um Grammy.
Por causa de Sandra (Sandy como costumava chamar), Bobby interrompeu a sua carreira para se dedicar mais à sua vida particular, e isso fez com que a sua fama fosse por água abaixo.
Em tempos de guerra, tentando uma volta por cima, Bobby começa a apoiar o presidente John Kennedy e escreve músicas sobre a Guerra do Vietname. O seu regresso ao palco aconteceu antes da sua morte. Só aí apresenta a sua verdadeira mãe, Nina, pois só naquela época descobre que a sua suposta irmã mais velha era, na verdade, a sua mãe, que o teve ainda jovem e não pode assumi-lo devido ao facto de ser mãe solteira e não saber quem era o pai de Darin, isso com certeza foi uma das maiores deceções da sua vida. Para não ser chamado de bastardo na época, a sua mãe deu-o à sua avó, Holly, que era considerada por ele a sua verdadeira mãe.
Darin faleceu no dia 20 de dezembro de 1973, após uma cirurgia no coração. Existe um filme contando a sua história, chama-se "Uma vida sem Limites".
A música tema do filme Procurando Nemo é uma de suas obras, o seu nome é Beyond the Sea, interpretada por Robbie Williams.
Em 2007, a versão de Beyond The Sea, na voz de Bobby Darin, foi incluída na banda sonora do jogo BioShock, da empresa Irrational Games.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:09 0 comentários
Marcadores: Big Band, Bobby Darin, Dream Lover, folk, música, pop, Rock and Roll
domingo, maio 10, 2026
Donovan nasceu há 80 anos
Tendo assinado com a Pye Records em 1965, gravou singles e dois álbuns no estilo folk para a Hickory Records (empresa dos EUA), e após assinou com a Epic Records nos EUA - o primeiro contrato feito pelo novo vice-presidente da empresa, Clive Davis - e tornou-se mais bem sucedido internacionalmente. Começou uma longa e bem-sucedida colaboração com o principal produtor musical independente britânico Mickie Most, alcançando vários singles e álbuns de sucesso no Reino Unido, EUA e outros países.
Os seus singles de maior sucesso foram seus os primeiros hits no Reino Unido "Catch the Wind", "Colours" e "Universal Soldier" em 1965, sendo o último escrito por Buffy Sainte-Marie. Em setembro de 1966, "Sunshine Superman" liderou as paradas da Billboard Hot 100 dos Estados Unidos por uma semana e chegou ao Top 2 na Grã-Bretanha, seguido por "Mellow Yellow" que chegou ao Top 2 dos EUA em dezembro de 1966, e "Hurdy Gurdy Man" de 1968 no Top 5 em ambos os países, e então "Atlantis", que alcançou o Top 7 dos Estados Unidos em maio de 1969.
Ele se tornou amigo de músicos pop, incluindo Joan Baez, Brian Jones e os Beatles. Ele ensinou a John Lennon um estilo de Fingersyle em 1968 que Lennon empregou em "Dear Prudence", "Julia", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" e outras canções. O sucesso comercial de Donovan diminuiu após se separar de Mickie Most em 1969, e ele deixou a indústria durante algum tempo.
Donovan continuou a se apresentar e gravar esporadicamente nas décadas de 70 e 80. O seu estilo musical e imagem hippie foram desprezados pela crítica, principalmente depois do punk rock. As suas apresentações e gravações se tornaram esporádicas até um renascimento na década de 90, com o surgimento da cena rave britânica. Gravou o álbum "Sutras" (de 1996) com o produtor Rick Rubin e em 2004 fez um novo álbum, "Beat Cafe". Donovan foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, em 2012, e no Songwriters Hall of Fame, em 2014.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: Donovan, Escócia, folk, jazz, música, pop, psicodelia, Season of the Witch, world music
Hoje é dia de recordar Donovan...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:08 0 comentários
Marcadores: Donovan, Escócia, folk, jazz, música, pop, psicodelia, Sunshine Superman, world music
sexta-feira, maio 08, 2026
Ricky Nelson nasceu há 85 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:06 0 comentários
Marcadores: actor, cinema, country, folk, I Will Follow You, música, pop, Ricky Nelson, Rock, rockabilly
Ricky Nelson nasceu há 86 anos
Eric Hilliard Nelson (Teaneck, 8 de maio de 1940 – De Kalb, 31 de dezembro de 1985), mais conhecido como Ricky Nelson, foi um cantor, compositor e ator dos Estados Unidos. Ele colocou cinquenta e três canções na Billboard Hot 100 entre 1957 e 1973, incluindo dezanove hits entre os dez primeiros colocados.
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Marcadores: actor, cinema, country, folk, música, pop, Ricky Nelson, Rock, rockabilly, Travelin' Man
sexta-feira, maio 01, 2026
Gordon Lightfoot morreu há três anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 03:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: Canadá, country, folk, folk rock, Gordon Lightfoot, If You Could Read My Mind, música
terça-feira, abril 21, 2026
Saudades da voz e piano de Nina Simone...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 23:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: blues, direitos humanos, folk, gospel, I Put a Spell On You, jazz, música, Nina Simone, rythm and blues, soul
Nunca te esqueceremos, Nina Simone...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 02:30 0 comentários
Marcadores: blues, direitos humanos, folk, gospel, jazz, música, Nina Simone, rythm and blues, Sinnerman, soul
Nina Simone morreu há vinte e três anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:23 0 comentários
Marcadores: blues, direitos humanos, folk, gospel, jazz, música, Nina Simone, rythm and blues, soul, To Love Somebody
domingo, abril 19, 2026
Saudades de Levon Helm...
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Marcadores: baterista, blues, country, folk, Levon Helm, música, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Rock and Roll, Up on Cripple Creek
Levon Helm morreu há catorze anos...

Levon Helm, nome artístico de Mark Lavon Helm (Elaine, Arkansas, 26 de maio de 1940 – Nova Iorque, 19 de abril de 2012) foi um multi-instrumentista e ator dos Estados Unidos da América, mais conhecido como vocalista e baterista do grupo de rock The Band. Helm tornou-se célebre pela sua voz, profundamente sentimental, e o seu estilo criativo na bateria, características bem representadas em gravações dos The Band como "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek" ou "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Após o fim do grupo, em 1978, fez alguns papéis no cinema e deu início a uma carreira a solo, trabalhos que passou a manter paralelamente a quando do regresso dos The Band ao ativo, em 1983.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:14 0 comentários
Marcadores: baterista, blues, country, folk, Levon Helm, música, Rhythm and Blues, Rock, Rock and Roll, The Band, The Weight
sábado, abril 18, 2026
Born In Louisiana...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 10:20 0 comentários
Marcadores: Born In Louisiana, Cajun, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, country, Electric blues, folk, guitarra, jazz, rabeca, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, Texas blues, violino
Clarence Gatemouth Brown nasceu há cento e dois anos...
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:02 0 comentários
Marcadores: Cajun, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, country, Electric blues, folk, guitarra, jazz, Leftover Blues, rabeca, Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, Texas blues, violino
segunda-feira, abril 13, 2026
O álbum Black Rose foi lançado pela banda Thin Lizzy há 47 anos
Black Rose: A Rock Legend is the ninth studio album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy. Released in 13 April 1979, it has been described as one of the band's "greatest, most successful albums". It was the first time that blues rock guitarist Gary Moore remained in Thin Lizzy long enough to record an album - after previous brief stints in 1974 and 1977 with the band. The album peaked at No. 2 on the UK charts - making it the band's highest-charting album in the UK. It was their fourth consecutive album to be certified Gold by the BPI.
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:47 0 comentários
Marcadores: Black Rose, blues rock, folk, hard rock, heavy metal, Irlanda, Phil Lynott, pop, Rock, Thin Lizzy, Waiting for an Alibi
quinta-feira, abril 09, 2026
The War Is Over...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 05:00 0 comentários
Marcadores: folk, folk rock, música, música de protesto, Phil Ochs, The War Is Over
Hoje é dia de recordar Phil Ochs...
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Marcadores: folk, folk rock, música, música de protesto, Phil Ochs, When I'm Gone








