Time to take a look back into this day in rock history: October 23
1964
Crickets lead vocalist David Box, who took the mic after Buddy Holly’s exit, is killed in a plane crash in Houston, Texas.
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1970
The original “Jersey Boys”, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Four Seasons had a career resurgence after the play and film “Grease” was embraced by the nostalgia crowd.
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2016
Classified primarily as a jazz /Latin artist, Esperanza Spalding has been performing since the age of five and is self taught on a number of different instruments.
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2019
Rhiannon Giddens is both a Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner, as well as an author of children’s books, who embraces a wide range of musical influences.
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2021
Named after an area in Cincinnati, the husband-wife duo Over the Rhine is a big draw at the Kent Stage.
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2021
At first listen, their first single “A Horse with No Name” was thought to be a Neil Young song. Fifty years later America celebrated its golden anniversary at the Akron Civic Theater.
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2022
Martin Sexton got his start at open mic nights and later distributed his own demos on 8-track tapes. Those tapes are now highly prized collector’s items.
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