Every day (we hope) The Oregonian Music Blog will post a song of the day for you to enjoy. It might be a new song or just be an excuse to geek out over our favorite bands. But it will always be worth ...

The nom de plume The Mighty Sparrow has proven apt for Slinger Francisco. The singer’s birthplace — Grand Roy, Grenada, a country village better known for crops than calypso — is as unassuming as his ...

He may be an old bird, but don’t consider this Calypso singer a musical lame duck. More than 50 years after his first song, Slinger Francisco, better known as The Mighty Sparrow, is still flying high.

He's been assembling finely tuned pop-punk anthems for years, but songwriter Ted Leo still sings as if it's his first day on the job. Leo just released his sixth album with his longtime band The ...

The Mighty Sparrow — the now-legendary calypsonian who burst on the Caribbean music scene in 1956 and soared into music history — is the subject of the free “Just Like That, Sparrow Turned 80” ...

Our Latin Roots segment today is with Ernesto Lechner of the syndicated radio show The Latin Alternative. He joins us to talk about The Mighty Sparrow, a musical giant who has been a defining force in ...

Ted Leo's best songs don't waste time with build-ups, come-downs, or anything as glib as a "tease." Instead, their melodies immediately introduce themselves, as if Leo and his revolving-door gang were ...

Less than a month away from Ted Leo's The Brutalist Bricks, the '80s-hardcore influenced 13-track jammer that constitutes Ted and Rx's Matador debut. "The Mighty Sparrow" is a bright and mighty opener ...

No singer has had a longer career in calypso and soca than Mighty Sparrow, and people deserve a two-disc Sparrow compilation to bury all other Sparrow compilations. Save this story Save this story ...

Calypso, with its peppery lyrics and percolating rhythms synonymous with the Caribbean, long has been dominated by artists whose ferocious stage names reflect the competitive nature of the realm: Lord ...

Those fortunate to have grown up during the heyday of the Mighty Sparrow could not be happier to get a close-up of his early life through the spotlight of the theatre presentation Ten To One: Tribute ...

We gave you The Brutalist Bricks's brash opener "The Might Sparrow" a few weeks back, and now it's got a fun video to go with it. The all-white room gives the band lots of opportunities to pull off ...