Gianluca Tramontana

The storied RCA Studio A in Nashville has produced some of our greatest pop music — but until a last-minute reprieve, it almost became condos. 

At the edge of New Orleans' French Quarter sits the Clothes Spin Laundromat. Sixty years ago, rock ‘n’ roll took its baby steps there. As Gianluca Tramontana discovered, it’s a hidden piece of music history.

Before he was a famous blues guitarist known as "Honeyboy," David Edwards was a different kind of legend -- a boxcar hobo. Gianluca Tramontana visited him on the South Side of Chicago.

Music journalist Gianluca Tramontana took a bumpy, 8-hour bus ride from Havana to the remote eastern province of Granma —- the heart of Cuba’s sugarcane country -- to find an extraordinary relic: a hand-cranked mechanical organ that is still the life of the party.