Category: Music Tells the Story

Beloved Singer-Songwriter Mac Davis Dies at 78

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

The music world loses a singer-songwriter whose career spanned five decades.

Mac Davis 1981

Mac Davis wrote and sang his own hits breaking through to no.1 on the American Pop Charts with this song in 1972.

Baby baby don’t get hooked on me...

But the beloved singer-songwriter is better known for writing hits for performers including Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Tom Jones and Elvis.

On a cold and gray Chicago morn a poor little baby child is born in the ghetto …

The multi-talented Davis from Lubbock, Texas became a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, had his own variety TV show and acted in films and performed on Broadway. He died yesterday at 78 following heart surgery. Carmen Roberts. Fox News.


New generations may also know Davis’ work because he co-wrote “Young Girls” for Bruno Mars.

On another sad note Helen Reddy – who also died yesterday at 78 – recorded one of Davis’ songs – “I Believe in Music.” It was the B-side of her 1971 breakthrough hit, “I Don’t Know How To Love Him.”

Singer Trini Lopez Dies

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

Singer and actor Trini Lopez dies at 83 after contracting the coronavirus.

Trini Lopez

In the 1960s Trini Lopez hit the charts with the songs Lemon Tree and If I Had a Hammer, which went to no.1 in 40 countries. Stars such as Buddy Holly and Frank Sinatra mentored the proud Mexicano singer, who was born to immigrant parents in Dallas. They were so poor Lopez had to drop out of high school to work, but his life changed after his father bought him a $12 Gibson acoustic guitar and taught him how to play. Years later in Hollywood, Sinatra signed him to his record label. Trini Lopez died at 83. 

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Trini Lopez also appeared in the several films, including the classic – The Dirty Dozen – and helped develop a line of signature Trini Lopez Gibson guitars. Filmmaker P. David Ebersole just finished shooting a documentary on Lopez called “My Name Is Lopez.”


At Home With Farm Aid – April 11

Posted on by Carmen Roberts

This year’s Farm Aid Concert will be a very different show as the coronavirus crisis forces audiences and musicians to stay home to stay safe.


Live on FarmAid.org
and AXS TV
Saturday, April 11
8pm ET

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Music: “On the road again …”
Unlike this Farm Aid concert when tens of thousands fans packed a theater to hear Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews perform, this year’s concert won’t be on the road. It will be streamed live from the musicians’ homes. They’re staying safe but refusing to forget the family farmers and ranchers who are, more than ever, essential workers. 

At Home with Farm Aid will stream live Saturday night on the Farm Aid website and on AXS TV, so you can… (music) “Keep on rocking in the free world…”