When Nashville based singer-songwriter Sarah Potenza was five years old, thanks to her parents’ good taste, she heard Joe Cocker sing the Leonard Cohen classic “Bird on a Wire.” In a recent interview she said, “I loved the sound of […]
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Matthew Sweet’s long career has produced some of the best power pop songs of the last 25 years, and he has a huge catalog from which to draw. His last studio album, Modern Art, was released in 2011. More recently, […]
On Friday I was privileged to be in the audience at the Regent Theatre for a fundraiser for Folk New England (FNE), an organization dedicated to preserving the music and the ephemera of the folk revival movement in New England. […]
I just wanted to offer a few thoughts on Ornette Coleman. Upon hearing of his death Thursday, I thought of an old friend with the self-dubbed nickname of “Jazz Bob” who sought out and savored “The Cry” in jazz. As in, […]
On a night when the city of Cleveland was #ALLIN for game 4 of the NBA Finals, the schedule maker forgot that on the second Thursday of every month the New Soft Shoe is performing. A fixture for several years down […]
It was a dramatic and gripping Oscar-winning 1962 movie. It was a seminal indie rock record of the 1980s. It was an astonishing debut. The Dream Syndicate’s The Days Of Wine And Roses has long been considered the cornerstone album of L.A.’s early ’80s […]
On October 29, 1971, Duane Allman, the soulful lead guitarist who passionately wove expressive and fluid guitar solos into the music of iconic artists like Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, King Curtis, Derek and the Dominoes, and the Allman Brothers, died […]
Wynonna is one of those stars big enough to go by one name. She has had two stellar careers in Country Music: as part of the chart-topping Country duo The Judds and as a solo artist when The Judds disbanded in […]
My wife and I came to know Kelley Gibson, bit by bit, through his father Eric Gibson, who happens to be the older half of The Gibson Brothers, one of the premier bands in bluegrass. Kelley is 19 years old. […]
Like most guitar players, I’ve long known that having just one is simply not enough. I have my sweet-smelling mahogany Martin 000-15 that I keep inside the case next to my bed and only bring out on special days. There’s […]
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