This past year has been a banner one for live music. I thought what better way to kick off all the year-end reviews than with the folks who most likely attend more performances than almost anyone else — photographers. Even […]
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Last Sunday my wife and I were listening to Christmas on the Lam in the car. I bought it mainly because I like Charlie Parr. Suddenly, my wife said, “Who is this? I love her voice!” She checked the CD […]
Jake Shimabukuro’s newest album, Nashville Sessions, may have opened the ukulele wizard’s creative floodgates. Nashville Sessions, released in late September, was his first recording with all original songs, and he aims to compose a lot more original ones in the […]
The day after the presidential election, I, along with 30,000 other (perhaps similarly stunned and heartsick) souls downloaded Rebecca Solnit’s 2004 book “Hope In the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities.” The prescient tome details the history of activist victories against […]
In the current economic landscape of music, album sales are flagging. Streaming sites and downloads allowing fans to grab just the album’s single have made the long form play almost a lost art. Much has been made about crowdfunding sites’ […]
In Stockholm today, Patti Smith sang Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (beginning at 1:02:56), and the United States Ambassador to Sweden, Azita Raji, presented Bob Dylan’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature on his behalf. Dylan’s […]
On a cold December night with temperatures nearing the zero mark we made a short trek to Minden, Nebraska, also known as Christmas Town because of the thousands of decorative lights adorning the Kearney County Court House. Across the street […]
Social media has turned birthdays into the time to remember old friends. So those who might have noticed that Tom Waits turned 67 on Wednesday could have used it as a chance to refamiliarize themselves with his unique (understatement) style of music. […]
Laurie Lewis has been at the forefront of women in bluegrass music for many years and her new album with her band the Right Hands was just nominated for a Grammy Award. The Hazel and Alice Sessions celebrates the music of two of […]
All the shouting about Dylan’s accepting, or not accepting, or liking, or not liking, or appreciating, or not appreciating, the Nobel Prize in Literature has finally faded. He appreciates it, and has said so; and though he will not be […]
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