Just over a year ago, I saw The Replacements live for the first time at Forest Hills Stadium. Now that the band has broken up again, presumably forever (although you never know), I wanted to republish this essay about one of the […]
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The story goes something like this… In early 1955, my 14-year-old father went over to his girlfriend’s house on a Saturday night. A few minutes after he arrived, and was sitting on the girl’s living room couch with her parents […]
I can’t put a finger exactly on when I became a Lou Reed admirer — fan is a word he alternately would have loathed and loved. But I’m sure he would have appreciated that I came to admire his music — […]
This week’s Podcast Corner revolves around Patty Griffin, the Maine native, beloved in Nashville’s Americana songwriting community and at home in Austin, Texas. Freight Train Boogie highlights three songs from Griffin’s Servant of Love album. My Favorite Album shares Catherine Britt’s […]
On Halloween eve, the BBC posted a new promotional photo of the current Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi, wearing the Ray-Ban Wayfarers that have become not just an iconic, but a crucially sonic, part of his persona as the Twelfth (or […]
The arresting three-part harmonies flowing from the current lineup of The Wailin’ Jennys were born in a bathroom. Founding member Ruth Moody sought recommendations for the departing Annabelle Chvostek from a friend, Aoife O’Donovan of Crooked Still and more recently […]
This is a tale of two historic and enduring country music institutions based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Grand Ole Opry-the longest running live radio broadcast in America and Ryman Auditorium-where the Opry called home for thirty years. Today they […]
A friend of ours likes to say, “Nobody likes them but the fans.” Who listens to bluegrass music and why do they come out to festivals and concerts, continuing to purchase records and listen to the music that in many […]
Some good new stuff this week, so here are a few highlights: Steve Martin & Edie Brickell So Familiar Everybody loves Steve Martin, with his nice suits, banjo, and his half-smirk of a smile. And, with that unique, breathy voice […]
I need live music. It feeds my soul. Since my late teens and early 20s, when I lived in Houston, I’ve found myself in bars and clubs, absorbing the sounds of musicians telling their stories and pouring out their souls […]
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