Tim Duffy is backstage at one of John Dee Holeman’s concerts, showing him a copy of his new album. And he’s trying to jog the septuagenarian bluesman’s memory about the musicians who accompanied him on the record. “Remember them?” Duffy […]
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It was through his extended association with Van Morrison — which began with 1970’s Moondance and has continued, off and on, through this year’s tour — that guitarist John Platania discovered his musical identity. “My role is to serve the […]
“Initially, we really aimed ourselves toward trying almost to put ourselves in that Bill Monroe era — intentionally pursued it. That was really fun, and we worked at it for a long time….But once we started letting other musical ideas […]
“After my brother was killed, it was easy for me to think that the world was an awful place,” says singer-songwriter Kristy Kruger. “I needed to know that the world is full of wonderful people, and that’s what I’m finding […]
Long careers sometimes depend on the serendipitous folds of history. Around a dozen years after Loudon Wainwright III released his 1970 debut album, he was briefly hired to be a part of David Letterman’s short-lived daytime talk show. Wainwright spent […]
Last year, Mandy Moore offered to reimburse any members of the unsuspecting public who had bought copies of her early-career teen-pop albums. There were only two albums — three if you count a remix disc — and they weren’t very […]
“If you go back and look, pretty much every one of my songs is kinda the same thing. I’m telling a moralistic, philosophical, little tiny story.” –Mark Olson If you’re bent on finding a breakup song on Mark Olson’s new […]
“I like country & western, and I like soul, and I love that place where the two of them live, black and white, together. It makes sense to me.” –Nick Lowe Nick Lowe was a tender lad of 17 when […]
Lately, Pegi Young has been experiencing a number of firsts, not the least of which is releasing her self-titled debut album. But perhaps the most surprising is this: “I picked up the electric guitar for the first time the other […]
CLOSE UP: Blood-red cowboy boots stride confidently down a tiled hall. CAMERA PANS: A sage green Nudie suit is revealed. Bejeweled cacti and wagon wheels glitter up and down its legs and sleeves; a Conestoga shimmers on the jacket back. […]
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