Browsing: this day in music may 1

To promote their 1975 Made in the Shade tour, the band pulled off a stunt for the ages, playing live on a flatbed truck. Those were the days…

The legendary singer-songwriter was best known for such hits as “Sundown,” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “If You Could Read My Mind”

It’s not on the list of 1972’s biggest singles. But it’s one of the handful of songs most closely associated with one of the most successful bands of all time

A jam band hero and former leader of bands such as the Hampton Grease Band and Aquarium Rescue Unit was participating at a 70th birthday celebration

Two superstars had a mutual admiration society going when they finally performed together. One song became a classic; the others were often bootlegged.