Banjo man Todd Taylor captured lightning on tape in the mid ’80s when he covered Free Bird and successfully crossed over into mainstream music enough to make the Top 40 with a gold record. Now, like blazing hot sauce on […]
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January Patti Page, vocalist Sammy Johns, singer-songwriter Tandyn Almer, songwriter Raymond Franklin “Frank” Page, broadcaster John Wilkinson, guitarist (Elvis Presley’s TCB Band) Jimmy O’Neill, DJ, owner of Pandora’s Box and host of Shindig! Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner, guitarist and vocalist (Ohio […]
A lot of the music I listened to as I was “coming of age” I believed really meant something. I was fueled and fired with angst and passion and not any damn idea of what the hell to do with […]
The internet has been buzzing the past day or two over a folksinger gaffe that, in the grand scope of All Things, let’s be perfectly honest here, is not really the end of the world. A little background. In 1989, […]
It is truly a privilege as well as a treat to preview and review a new album that comes out of the Nashville community. There is additional perspective in reviewing one when it is by someone whom I consider […]
My post on picks for essential albums of the year was completed on the same day as the blogger compilation list was featured and a quick scrolling noted that there were many worthwhile recordings that were absent from all our […]
Today, Rick Danko, a key member of The Band, arguably the best American group of the last 50 years, would have been 70 years old. He died in his sleep in 1999. According to legend and fact, reality and lore, […]
…Revives and Puts to Rest Controversies As the Art Withstands the Test of Time My local public televsision station, tpt, was airing as part of the American Masters series the 2012 documentary film “Journey Under African Skies” on the 25th Anniversary […]
In recent weeks I have walked the vinyl path, striving for a less complicated life, recently selecting the Beatles 1966 mashup, Yesterday and Today. This record is best known as the second to last American Beatles release to significantly differ […]
Joel and Ethan Coen do a fine job of making us feel the experience of a fictional Greenwich Village folk singer in their new film Inside Llewyn Davis. We feel sorry for this poor schlub who can barely score a bed […]
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