Freedom is a look in the eyes, a tone of voice…and it is that flash of freedom that you want to capture…. Freedom is not conferred, nor can it be bought, it is your awareness of life….It can only be […]
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The Americana Folk Festival stayed true to its premise of being an intimate, down-home event where audience and artist are but a handshake away from one another. A halcyon event compared to other festivals of its kind, like the Newport […]
According to what he told the SRO crowd at this all-acoustic CMJ songwriter’s showcase, Steve Earle had never played in Brooklyn before. But he seemed happy to be here. The youngish audience (a lot younger than him, anyway) cheered his […]
It was a big day for Dixie Chicks fans at the stadium/arena mega-complex in Glendale, a suburb of Phoenix at the blood-red heart of crimson-state Arizona. Across the parking lot, the Chicks’ documentary, Shut Up And Sing, had opened the […]
Vince Gill’s latest release, These Days, is an ambitious and auspicious behemoth of a project — 43 songs on four discs surveying four stylistic corners of his broad musical persona. As such, it was quite fitting that his 2006 tour […]
The writer and teacher Ellen Willis often described herself as a democratic, libertarian radical. Only 64 when she died of lung cancer November 9, she leaves behind a slim but essential body of cultural criticism. Willis was a fierce feminist […]
Bassist, songwriter, promoter and manager Tillman Franks died in Shreveport, Louisiana, on October 26 after a lengthy illness. He was 86 years old. Franks was best known for befriending Hank Williams Sr. and for bringing a young Elvis Presley to […]
Buddy Killen, who passed away November 1 at age 73, belongs on the short list of those who most transformed country music from an amalgam of regional styles into a nationally recognized and Nashville-centered genre. Killen got very, very rich […]
Some called her “The Den Mother of Music Row,” but Marijohn Wilkin was one of the best pack members herself. In the film Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge: Where The Music Began, she sits there between Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, reminiscing […]
Perhaps his father’s name was Robert, too, but the junior stuck because he learned to play guitar just like his mother’s boyfriend, Robert Johnson. And so he became Robert Junior Lockwood in some circles, and almost certainly that name and […]
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