This is the seventh in a series of blog entries about the songs on the upcoming album Hello Cruel World, to be released January 2012. Originally posted at www.gretchenpeters.com/blog. Nashville, TN 2011 Baby lock that old front door Got […]
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The great thing about digital music is the ability to select shuffle and rediscover songs from your own collection. Or that’s the theory. Recently my system spat out Bob Dylan’s “With God On Our Side,” the excruciating Bootleg Series duet […]
Durango is one of those towns that has always been good to us. Going way back to the Storyville days we have always had great shows here. The Henry Strater Theater is part of an historic hotel of the same […]
Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings – Collector’s Edition Box Set (Proper American, 2011) After leaving the Rolling Stones in 1992, bassist Bill Wyman formed the Rhythm Kings around a core of Graham Broad, Andy Fairweather-Low, Georgie Fame, Albert Lee, Beverly Skeete […]
Willie Nile – The Innocent Ones (River House, 2011) Willie Nile is clearly possessed by the spirit of rock ‘n’ roll. Three albums into a renaissance that began with 2006’s Streets of New York, the sixty-three-year-old singer-songwriter continues to turn […]
Day One: Awesome but overwhelming Festival fanatics take note – there’s a new gathering in town… well, just to the south anyway, in Orlando Florida specifically. Aptly dubbed Orlando Calling and still in its infancy – the first event […]
Autumn has become the season for reissues, with new iterations of the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls, the Who’s Quadrophenia and the entire Pink Floyd catalog arriving in “deluxe” editions that contain a a greater volume of so-called bonus tracks than […]
Carla Olson is one of the most underrated artists out there. It never fails to amaze me how many times I get into music discussions with Americana and rootsy-type aficionados who have never heard of her or The Textones, but […]
The Grateful Dead of 1976 was one of my favorite configurations. Back from a time off in 1975, the members went their own ways for awhile. They sounded refreshed and ready to play. I am listening to the Dead’s […]
This time of year seems like an excellent time to revisit one of the great country music concept albums of the last few decades, Marty Stuart’s The Pilgrim (1999). Although we often associate the word “pilgrim” with the English colonists […]
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