Now we wait for the party. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has released the long-awaited list of inductees for the class of 2021. According to rock hall president and CEO, Greg Harris, the 36th group of recruits is its most diverse to date.

The six names to be ushered into the hall under the performer category are Foo Fighters, The Go-Gos, JAY-Z, Carole King, Todd Rundgren, and Tina Turner.

Foo Fighters, The Go-Gos, and JAY-Z all appeared on the rock hall ballot for the first time. Harris said they are all deserving of induction.

“Everyone on this list belongs in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,” Harris said during an interview with The Maine Edge that aired on BIG 104 FM.

When Tedeschi Trucks Band and friends performed at Arrington, VA’s annual four-day jam-centric LOCKN Festival on August 24, 2019, they unleashed a set for the ages. Special guests Trey Anastasio of Phish and guitarist Doyle Bramhall II joined Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and their 10-piece band, for a searing performance of Derek and the Dominos’ epic 1970 double album “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.” The set was mixed by Trucks, Bobby Tis and Brian Speiser, and is due for release on July 16 on vinyl, CD and digital download.

The connections between the “Layla” album and Tedeschi Trucks Band have long been a topic of conversation among fans.

When Eric Clapton formed Derek and the Dominos with American-born musicians Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon in 1970, the group name afforded the guitarist a degree of anonymity following the mega-success of Cream and the too-much-too-soon supergroup hype that caused Blind Faith to implode the previous year.

Recorded in Miami between August and October 1970, “Layla” is perhaps rock’s greatest album of unrequited love, created at a time when Clapton was hopelessly obsessed with the wife of his best friend, George Harrison. The Dominos first act was to become Harrison’s backing band earlier in the summer during the recording of the triple album “All Things Must Pass.”

In steamy Florida in late August, producer Tom Dowd arranged a union of Derek and the Dominos with the Allman Brothers Band, whose second album, “Idlewild South” he’d just finished producing. After some studio jams, Duane Allman stayed behind to add further fire to the Dominos’ lineup on slide guitar.

The “Layla” album, a blend of original impassioned soulful blues and some carefully chosen covers, was released on Susan Tedeschi’s birthday, November 9, 1970.

Here’s a good problem to have: so much new music, so little time to absorb it all. I’ve chosen five titles worthy of your consideration in rock, blues, country, and folk-pop released within the last two weeks.

We may not always notice them, but wild things are unrelentingly growing and creeping around us. Even the most securely constructed edifice of the unnatural world has elements of nature growing on, around or through it.

That notion of wildness being found in the most ordinary places – and how the two interrelate – is at the heart of pianist Ben Cosgrove’s fourth studio LP “The Trouble With Wilderness,” a beautiful and fascinating instrumental concept album that celebrates the certainty of nature’s presence in the most unnatural spaces.

The Boston-based Cosgrove has deep ties to Maine and says he plans a return to Portland soon where he feels most at home although in a normal year his home could be just about anywhere.

For a decade prior to the Covid lockdown Cosgrove performed about 200 shows per year around the country.

“It’s the lifestyle that works best for me,” Cosgrove says. “I really get a lot out of talking to a room full of people every night and being able to move around and live lightly. I’m not great at sitting still so the last year has been a bit of a challenge.”