Tag Archives: Rebecca Kilgore / Dave – Not a Care in the World

As an interpreter of basic American popular tracks through the 1930s and 1940s, vocalist and guitarist Rebecca Kilgore helped to revive the strikes of last night for modern-era jazz audiences. Given birth to in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1949, she relocated to Portland, Oregon at age 30, starting her music profession …

Arguably the very best living lyricist, Dave Frishberg has written a lot more than his share of witty (however insightful) classicsm, including “I’m Hip,” “Peel Me a Grape,” “Dear Bix,” “The Underdog,” “Saratoga Hunch,” “Slappin’ the Cakes in Me,” “Z’s,” “My Attorney Bernie,” “Blizzard of Lies,” “Another Song Approximately Paris,” …