Many of you who have been reading my articles over the past almost-ten years also follow my Facebook page, Americana and Roots Music Daily. I started it up about three years ago and it can best be described as an […]
Many of you who have been reading my articles over the past almost-ten years also follow my Facebook page, Americana and Roots Music Daily. I started it up about three years ago and it can best be described as an […]
I’m probably the last person on the planet to discover that Desert Island Discs wasn’t merely a feature in Tower Record’s free monthly Pulse magazine, but a 76-year-old radio show on BBC Radio 4. The idea for the program came from Roy Plomley, […]
God only knows how many ways I’ve tried to avoid using the term “Americana” in describing the music I love. My go-to response has at times been “it’s a radio format, not a genre,” but I’m aware it’s deeper than […]
It happened in June of 1967, before Woodstock and Altamont. The Beatles were still a band that had four singles in the top ten. Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits was released and it landed on the charts behind the Monkees, the […]
The Byrds created timeless music. They were folk-rock, psychedelic rock, and country rock pioneers and are — okay, I’ll come clean — my favorite band of all time. I could go on and on about the brilliance of original Byrds Roger […]
If it weren’t for speculation, our cultural imagination would be a far darker place. Moby Grape’s debut appeared in 1967, and their final album came in 1969 (they reformed briefly two years later, and continued to do so with varying […]
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