“No one remembers your name / just for working hard,” sings Rod Picott in his gritty, husky vocal as he tells the story of how manufacturing industries packed up factories in the US and moved jobs to low-wage economies such as […]
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JILLPOKE BOHEMIA presents BOHEMIAN BABYLON Excerpted from Jillpoke Bohemia: An Oral History Compiled by Talya McCaffrey In the fall of 20__, Jillpoke Bohemia hit the road for an East Coast tour in support of their major-label debut, […]
Good times below stairs Once upon a time, a bunch of musicians, their families, their dogs, and their neighbors and friends all lived in, or near, Woodstock, Bearsville, and Saugerties, New York. I begin “once upon a time” because that’s […]
Truth be told, it will take a pretty strong fan of Jimmy Page and his erstwhile band Led Zeppelin to buy the celebrated rock guitarist’s new book. Weighing in at just shy of 3 kg (more than six and a […]
Had singer-songwriter Caroline Peyton moved to Nashville in the early 1970s rather than Indiana, more people might know her name – her talent certainly warrants it. Instead, the call of a free-spirited commune drew her to Indiana where, even without the […]
Thirty-five years ago, a young American History PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst converted his dissertation on Jack Kerouac into the book, Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America. Almost immediately, the biography became widely praised as […]
On July 18, 19, and 20th Muscle Shoals, Alabama was witness to an educational, musical and spiritual reunion courtesy of promoter Dan Randolph. Music put this town on the map thanks to the plethora of iconic hits that flowed from […]
While last week I struggled a bit with my post-operative pain-reduction opiate-derived haze, the last few days have found me up, walking, talking, thinking, moving, rehabbin’, writing, interviewing, plotting, scheming, making music, listening to lots of it, and sitting up […]
Music knows no borders; it recognizes no boundaries. It cannot be contained by “genre-fication” or market manipulations. It is limitless when it is allowed to go where it will out of the love for the direct experience, soul to soul. […]
It takes a certain kind of chutzpah for a songwriter prized for their digestible — if remarkably poetic and often downright literary — songs, to open a well-attended show with a six-and-a-half-minute centuries-old Scottish folk ballad. Then again, if any […]
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