As a new contributor to this site (although I’ve read it for years), here are a few thoughts on music from a 50-year-old white guy… I’ve spent my life trying to explain to people why I enjoy the music I like, and […]
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As an actor, Jeff Daniels’ career has often seemed like a contradiction. From his role as intrepid anchor Will McAvoy in HBO’s The Newsroom, for which he won an Emmy, to current supporting turns as Apple CEO John Sculley in […]
Last week a great voice was brought to our collective memory by the passing of Leon Bibb. I thought about whether or not I should write anything about it. I did not know him. I never met him. I never […]
Vince Gill was feeling a little lost when he got the call from Dire Straits cofounder Mark Knopfler. After three solo albums, Gill and his label RCA Records, had parted ways. While Tony Brown, who Gill met working in Rodney […]
First heard on the Handsome Family’s Singing Bones album back in 2003, “Far from Any Road” was picked by the producers of HBO TV show True Detective two years ago to be used for a 30-second scene, and ended up — without Brett and […]
Travel, to be sure, is it’s own reward and so it was that I booked myself a long overdue vacation a while ago with the goal of getting as far away from home while staying Canada as I could. St. […]
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds is an seven-piece powerhouse that puts a modern spin on classic soul. The band is led by Arleigh Kincheloe (Sister Sparrow), whose astoundingly powerful voice and sly demeanor make for a spellbinding presence onstage. […]
Thursday night, Kim Richey played the Tin Pan in Richmond, Virginia, holding the audience in rapt attention with her crystal clear voice, offbeat sense of humor, and superb set list. Accompanied only by Dean Tidey on guitar, the spare arrangements […]
Prior to this show at Club Passim, I had seen Dietrich Strause play with a couple of other bands which were fairly different from each other — one bluegrass, the other traditional British folk — so I had no idea […]
It has been said that John Hammond is a great force of nature and sounds like a big train coming. This is very true. His live show exhibited that as well as his flip side. Hammond’s stage presence is that […]
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