Editor’s Note: Today the Rolling Stones’ guitarist turns 77 years young. Not only a guitar paragon, Richards is a singer, songwriter, and best-selling author. He’s also notorious as one of the folks who has lived the rock and roll lifestyle to its extreme, and survived. In his honor, we offer 10 things you may not know about “the man death forgot.”

“You just can’t go backward. The arrow of time only goes in one direction” – Jorma Kaukonen

‘El Dorado’ shows Marcus is an artist who came to Nashville in search of his sound and found it was waiting for him in his city of gold

The Jungle Show adapts to the current reality, bringing you “them good ol’ blues from Antone’s to outer space to your own place.”

“Growing up in Chicago the number one thing that inspired me was Gospel. I was always in churches. They say that Gospel is Blues dressed up for Sunday.” – Shawn James

A one-day virtual music festival to get out the vote — In support of Georgia grassroots organizations Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda & CivicGeorgia

Recorded in November at Memphis’s legendary Royal Sound Studios, on the same board where Al Green and Willie Mitchell made history, One Woman Band saw Volt take an equally old-school approach

New Year’s Cheese features 20th anniversary stream of Evolution concert film, plus a rebroadcast of 2016’s 3-set NYE performance

This new Christmas classic, “Hold On to Christmas,” adds a modern flair to a classic sound

Rita Houston (September 28, 1961 — December 15, 2020)