Sizing up the room, Chuck Prophet described how he uses smell and broken glass to find most of the bars he plays in. Surveying the Hamilton, he described it as something between “The White House and a PTA meeting.” Could […]
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I learned to trust the muse a long time ago. So long, in fact, that I can’t remember when it occurred. Music speaks to me in ways that I cannot speak for myself. When words are log-jammed and my brain […]
Well, this past Sunday on the ninth I had a nice night out with my folks. My mom had bought us alll tickets to go see Judy Collins and Don McLean at our local opera house. Collins I had seen […]
The year 2014 marked the 17th anniversary of Jeff Buckley’s passing, the 20th anniversary of the release of Grace (his only fully realized studio album), and this November 17th brings what would’ve been his 48th birthday. For the most recent […]
On the cell phone video, shot in Minneapolis and seen by over five million people in just five days, you first get a glimpse of the woman holding up the sign projected on a huge screen behind the drummer. It […]
“Dear Sam, dear Sam, I thought of you today / you were riding a train and it was safe,” sang Carrie Elkin as she conveyed, so elegantly, her feelings for Sam Baker. Baker is, and yet isn’t, defined by the […]
Manitas de Plata, the gypsy/flamenco guitar virtuoso who died last week, was the first celebrity musician I met face to face. I was reminded of this – ironically – about two weeks ago, when I was on holiday in Jordan […]
Between them, Woody Guthrie and Del McCoury’s voices have blown like wind through much of the last century. Each has traveled the length and breadth of the United States. The depth of the American soul these two men have mined in […]
I got to see Mason Jennings again on Friday night in a church in Koreatown. I’ve seen him play many times, both out here and in Minnesota, but it had been a while, so was extra great to hear songs I’ve loved […]
Forty years ago, the streets of Nashville looked much like the streets of New York City, and the city planners of Music City, faced with the phenomenon that so affectionately became known as “urban decay,” decided to follow the lead […]
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