Street Sweeper Social Club, fronted by Tom Morello (former Rage Against the Machine guitarist) and Boots Riley (lyrical spinner for legendary hip-hop group The Coup) took a page straight out of the Bob Dylan songbook, mixing medicine and fighting government […]
The Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Concert Featuring Steve Dawson, John Hammond, Jim Byrnes, Van Dyke Parks and many more Capilano University Theatre, March 14, 2010 Review by Douglas Heselgrave Gritty,unwashed and real. The blues saved American popular music from the saccharine […]
Listening to She and Him, the brainchild of actress Zooey Deschanel (aka the older sister to Cameron Crowe’s William Miller in Almost Famous) and local Portland singer/songwriter M. Ward (knob-turner for Jenny Lewis and Norah Jones collaborator) is like falling […]
If the only thing you know about Knoxville are Bill Dance’s hat and that episode of the Simpsons where Bart rents a car to go to the World’s Fair, you’re missing out on something big: the Dirty Guv’nahs and the […]
In moments of weakness, my PayPal account temporarily in a positive cash flow position and with the pretext that I’m “researching” for my occasional radio show in hand, I have these last couple weeks made actual purchases of music online. […]
I had made no plans, set no schedule, and established no expectations when I first hit 6th Street in Austin this past Wednesday evening. I arrived around dinner time (which would come to mean lunchtime in the days ahead), and […]
Muskegon’s Frauenthal Center For the Performing Arts is having it’s 80th anniversary this year, and it was our honor to help kick off the celebratory series of events. Our March 20th concert there, billed as “Folk Night at the Frauenthal,” […]
Alex would have been proud: http://tinyurl.com/ylzlvjs Rory Gallagher 1987 Sbd w/interesting set list: http://tinyurl.com/yk736eo 2004 Sbd from the Robert Randolph Band: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=295518 Well, here’s a cheery mixtape (free d/l): http://tinyurl.com/yzvuhfr Wolfgang shares a vintage Buddy Guy/Junior Wells show: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/buddy-guy-and-junior-wells-blues-band/concerts/newport-folk-festival-july-28-1968.html
By ‘Rebel’ Rod Ames Peter Karp & Sue Foley – He Said – She Said (Blind Pig Records) It’s been a long time since “He” (Peter Karp) left the surroundings of swampy New Jersey and the rural grit of Southern […]
I had hoped to blog more often while SXSW was happening but Maslow’s hierarchy of needs was in full play and sleep and food won out when the music was put on hold to take care of the basics. It […]
