Names like Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Allen Toussaint, Earl King, and Dr. John a.k.a. Mac Rebennack come to mind when talking about hit songs emanating from New Orleans. Over the past few years, however, the biggest hits from a Big […]
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Lizotte’s, Newcastle NSW, supported by Pieta Brown I disovered Iris DeMent in a pawn shop. It must have been late 1997 when I picked up a second hand copy of Infamous Angel (1992) and noticed the liner notes by John Prine, whose imprimatur […]
In the early 1980s, during the peak of the punk movement, Los Angeles became known as the place to go if a musician wanted to expand beyond the three-chord garage passion of the Sex Pistols and the Ska strains of […]
Mary Gauthier writes songs that elbow you in the gut, and then catch you as you are falling. They feel your pain. They’ve been there, and then some. Her beginnings are well documented already; but they are so fundamental to […]
John Fogerty came to town last Sunday to Cruzan Amphitheatre and played an amazing show. The name of his current tour is entitled 1969. The reason for this is because 1969 was the year that Creedence Clearwater Revival put out […]
Over three nights in early July, thousands of Deadheads will flock to Soldier Field in Chicago to let the sweet sounds of “Ripple” wash over them, dance to the pungent rhythms of “Sugar Magnolia” and “Uncle John’s Band,” and celebrate […]
Of all of the shows I have seen, this was an experience heretofore unduplicated: I am the guy who, when he first hears about an upcoming event, says yeah, I’m going, but whose interest wanes the closer said event gets. […]
If Quentin Tarantino were to make a flick about indie-folk musicians, the result would be Whitehorse, minus the splatter. The Canadian husband and wife duo, Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, drop listeners into a sonic world crackling with retro-surfer rock […]
The stage is often small – an open front shed with room on the stage for five microphones, monitors, and a few lights, almost enough to allow members of the audience to recognize who’s onstage. Members of the band form […]
It’s possible that Howe Gelb invented what we’ve come to call alt-country. At least he’s among the few who never denied it. In 1980 he gathered a pack of desert punks to record a sweet, original country song, “Curtis, John […]
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