Today in Acoustic-Rock History

1964 – The Beatles hold the top five positions on Billboards’s Hot 100 with, in order from #1 to #5, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “Twist And Shout,” “She Loves You,” “I Want To Hold Your Hand” and “Please Please Me”.

1996 – Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia’s widow, Deborah, scatter part of Garcia’s ashes in the Ganges River in India.

BIRTHDAY:

Muddy Waters 1915

Berry Oakley (Allman Brothers) 1948