KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last time Queen toured America with Freddie Mercury, I was 11 years old. I was was too young to attend, but my older cousin saw the band perform that gig in 1982 at the Myriad ...
Massachusetts native Freddy “Boom-Boom” Cannon, born on this day in 1939, has no obvious connection to New Orleans. But his raucous, brassy 1959 recording of “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,” a song ...