During a performance in Chicago last month, Emmylou Harris told Rodney Crowell that he was starting a song in the wrong key. He glided into his response: “She remembers the keys, but I remember all the words.” Indeed, after 40 […]
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With “Birth of the Cool” in 1948, Miles Davis introduced most listeners to the arranging talent of Gil Evans who has become more influential than ever today. allmusic.com During research for my jazz orchestra article, I put together this discography, which attempts to […]
All the brass horns gleam, whisper and shout. Tonal colors multiply, merge, and melt, without digital trickery. Today’s jazz orchestra composer-arranger’s pen conjures sumptuous landscapes for the soloist’s ramble. Impressive recordings of them proliferate lately, some winning best-of-the-year polls and […]
It was an evening of quality entertainment Wednesday evening as Music Box Supper Club hosted over three hours of music featuring Shooter Jennings with the Waymore’s Outlaws. Normally out touring with his own backing band, Shooter has once again teamed […]
As soon as Club Passim added a late show for The Lonesome Trio, I jumped on a ticket (I already had plans to see another show that conflicted with their early show). I saw this band at the Newport Folk […]
Four years ago on this site, I posted an interview I had with a woman from Boston by the name of Marissa Nadler. She had been described somewhere on the web by various somebodies as both “the indie-folk pinup girl […]
Eddie Huffman’s John Prine: In Spite of Himeself (University of Texas Press, March 2015, $24.96/13.99, 224 pages) from the American Music Series effectively explores the music and life of Americana icon John Prine in an admiring, but not uncritical unauthorized […]
Liverpool graces the banks of a freezing cold River Mersey, just a few miles from Brooklyn. This beautiful area marks the home of a celebrated musician, whose birthplace museum is, most appropriately, in the former railway station. Before you are further confused, […]
Samantha Fish stalked the stage at the Birchmere like a woman with an inner vision, one that alternated between driving her to rock and roll madness on one hand, and to soulful blues balladeer on the other. Throughout the evening […]
Visually, husband and wife Grace and Tony White seem the most unlikely pair: Tony in black shirt, pants and gray coat – a youthful and more handsome Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster, black plugs instead of neck bolts – and […]
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