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Electro Lounge host and WJCT's resident pop culture junkie David Luckin is always on the lookout for interesting music, art and historical tidbits on the web. Check out some of his findings below on The Electro Blog.

Cranston To Play Trumbo, Sex, Drugs, Music and Nash, Robbie Robertson Fixes The Music & Photos

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Breaking Un-American

From the pages of the New York Daily News comes the news that Walter White will play blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo.The movie will trace the life of Trumbo, who was the highest-paid screenwriter in the world before he was jailed for refusing an interrogation from Congress' Un-American Activities Committee.” Read more:

Learn more about Dalton Trumbo
 

It Stoned Me

Also in the News “Graham Nash talks sex, drugs and music and the stories behind the music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. “Take the night in 1969 when the band’s eponymously named first album, “Crosby, Stills & Nash” (“Wooden Ships,” “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”) was still in the offing and they joined Joni Mitchell and Kris Kristofferson at Johnny Cash’s Nashville mansion for a party honoring Bob Dylan.

It was just another evening of gold cutlery and reigning music royalty until Cash stood and announced that the family tradition was “you have to sing for your supper.” Dylan, who hadn’t been heard from in a year after his motorcycle accident, rose up and crooned a new song, “Lay Lady Lay.” The table was in tears.” Read more:  

David Crosby keeps the music going with his son and Graham Nash

 
The New York Times has an amazing gallery of   photographs by the photographer, Oscar Abolafia I’ve posted a few below but go to the Times to see the slide show.

Credit Oscar Abolafia
SALVADOR DALI at a shoot at the St. Regis hotel, in the early sixties.

Credit Oscar Abolafia
Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire at Nancy Sinatra's opening night party, which was also celebrating the closing night for Elvis, at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, in 1969.

Credit Oscar Abolafia
Robert Redford playing football between takes while shooting "A Bridge Too Far," in Holland, in the summer of 1977.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono going into the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in 1975.

Learn more about Oscar Abolafia

The Band Is Back

Robbie Robertson has a Box Set he’d like you to hear. And it’s pretty awesome! Listen to Robbie… http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SmZGEaiOopU

More news on the Band’s new release from The Wrap

And that’s a wrap see you next week.

David Luckin joined WJCT as a development producer in 2000, bringing with him 19 years’ experience as a Jacksonville news photographer and a lifelong passion for music. The New York native hosted his first local music program at Gainesville’s NPR affiliate while earning his degree at the University of Florida.