Hump Day Music News You Can Use

Uncle Tom Moffatt flashes back to this week in 1973, when Mama Cass Elliott did 3 shows in Honolula backed by a 14 piece orchestra. Tickets cost $5.

http://www.midweek.com/jimmy-buffett-adam-levine-melanie-griffith-celebrity-news/

Christmas with Clarence Carter

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2013/12/clarence_carter_is_your_holida.html

R.I.P. to Czech Jazz critic Lubomir Doruzka

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/renowned-czech-jazz-critic-dies-at-89/2013/12/17/02edf4ca-673b-11e3-997b-9213b17dac97_story.html

Blues, funk, and psychobilly folk grass

http://planetjh.com/2013/12/17/music-box-blues-funk-and-psychobilly-folk-grass/

'Twas the night before this day

http://capeandislands.org/post/john-hodgman-twas-night-day

How to play MIDI guitar without extra hardware

http://www.sonicstate.com/amped/2013/12/17/play-midi-guitar-without-extra-hardware/

Starkey gets named in a NSA court ruling

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_24739451/judge-nsa-case-compares-spy-agency-beatles

Lon Van Eaton creates a new CD for charity

http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/local/former-george-harrison-collaborator-at-heart-of-charity-cd/article_a8e1654a-44e8-52a4-a49c-9d0368af298b.html

Happy 70th to Walter "Wolfman" Washington

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/walter-wolfman-washingtons-70th/Content?oid=2287949

And the latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class is announced.

http://www.bayoubuzz.com/louisiana-news/new-orleans-news/item/566873-nirvana-kiss-to-be-inducted-into-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame