Sometime in 2017, veteran busker-turned-folksinger Peter Mulvey had what his publicist describes as a series of “heart-breaking upheavals”. There are no public details (nor need there be) but it all resulted in Mulvey entering a kind of internal winter exile […]
Singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey’s career was humming along nicely last year – recording, writing, European tours, annual week-long coffeehouse productions. Long stretches of concentrated writing, creative options opening everywhere, and even extended backroads bicycle jaunts with performances on front porches and wayside gas […]
Peter Mulvey chose Club Passim to host his “Lamplighter Sessions” five years ago, and it has become an annual tradition, held surrounding Halloween, since then. This was the first time I attended one of the shows, and what a treat! […]
Bill Camplin at Cafe Carpe. flickr.com Bill Camplin – Understory (self-released) Bill Camplin observes and invokes life with unblinking candor on his inspired new recording. This crystal-clear Nashville-recorded session stands as Camplin’s strongest-ever album of original work. Peerless in its naked, high-baritone […]
Reprinted from Modern Acoustic magazine (www.modernacoustic.com). To download the full issue pdf, click HERE. FAVORITE ALBUMS “Numbered Doors,” by Lori McKenna and “Milltowns,” by Mark Erelli These two locally produced albums are as authentic and moving as any released nationally. After […]
The Signature Sounds 20th Anniversary Celebration starts with a conversation between friends: Jim Olsen, the label’s founder, and Chris Smither, the label’s most storied act. The two are sitting on the slightly raised stage of the Parlor Room, a two-year-old, 50-seat […]
Imagine stepping off a subway and hearing an amazing version of Paul Simon’s “Stranded In A Limousine” being played by Peter Mulvey and Chris Smither, for free, right there on the subway platform. You’d be late for work. For Boston […]
