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Ted Gioia

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The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History

He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer.

by Ted Gioia via The Honest Broker on June 12, 2024
How an IBM Computer Learned to Sing

The IBM 7094 anticipated the future of music—and also sounded like the Auto-Tuned pop stars of today.

by Ted Gioia via The Honest Broker on March 26, 2023
Did the Blues Originate in New Orleans?

Something unusual happened in New Orleans music around 1895. Was it the birth of the blues?

by Ted Gioia via The Honest Broker on April 18, 2022
The First Music Streaming Service

In the 1930s, a Seattle entrepreneur created a successful analog streaming platform—and ran it out of a drugstore.

by Ted Gioia via The Honest Broker on April 4, 2022
The Discovery of Buck Hammer

A remarkable blues musician emerged from obscurity in 1959, but something about him just didn’t seem right.

by Ted Gioia via The Honest Broker on January 17, 2022

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Illustration of McCormick at his desk, hunched over a typewriter.

Hellhounds on His Trail

Mack McCormick’s long, tortured quest to find the real Robert Johnson.

by Michael Hall via Texas Monthly on April 4, 2023

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