Where do you file Dusty Springfield’s Dusty In Memphis? Most music historians classify the U.K. pop singer’s 1969 LP a masterpiece of R&B. But ask the clerk at any chain store, and he or she will likely dispatch you to […]
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At their best, Hal Willner’s tribute projects (which have included albums devoted to Kurt Weill, Disney movie songs and Edgar Allan Poe) can reveal unexpected things about both the source material and the performers. At their clunkiest, the boho producer/arranger’s […]
The Middle Tennessee area has had more than its share of servicemen away on long hauls in Iraq, many home momentarily this summer before being sent right on back. So this edition of the regular summertime Thursday night bluegrass shows […]
Why a Gram Parsons tribute concert now? Good question. There was no real specific reason for such a lofty event — no anniversary of his birth or notorious death to wrap a big to-do around, and it could hardly be […]
Like the great line from “She’s Crazy For Leavin’”, Rodney Crowell knows when he is in Houston he’s playing “to a busload of honkies who never forget.” His rare homecoming gigs always seem to turn into what my buddy calls […]
On an evening thick with heat and shuffling storm clouds, Des Moines became an unlikely site for what is increasingly being recognized as a folk revival in the new, weird America. A standing-room crowd had accumulated before a note was […]
Like a soldier’s last meal before going into battle, this show on the quiet, dark stage of the Orange Peel gave Beth Orton a respite in advance of her performance two days later at Tennessee’s Bonnaroo Festival, where she would […]
Isn’t this the stuff we overthrew circa 1770s colonial revolts? The technically proficient Brits and their mordant reels and jigs, which they’ll update for lucre, and the one hundred or fewer who statue stood in front of this man, Thompson, […]
Even on the most prosaic of occasions, hearing a decent version of “Georgia On My Mind” can be an evocative experience. It’s just one of those perfect songs, so perfect, in fact, that it really takes little more than the […]
So, OK, here’s how it happened. Jason Ringenberg is on a train traveling through central Germany. It’s not unusual that he should be here; he’s in the middle of one of five tours of Europe he’ll make in support of […]
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