Ever hear a musician for the first time and say, “Wow, I could listen to this music all day!”? For me, it’s a rarity. I consider myself a music snob…I know what I like, and that’s that. (I’m also a […]
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Closing out my 2017, I was excited to once again catch one of my favorite bands from my youth. Hard to believe, but here was X, who in 1977 started playing gigs in Los Angeles clubs like the Masque, Club […]
Even for an artist as consistently productive and aesthetically satisfying as psychedelic folk troubadour Robyn Hitchcock has been over the past four decades, 2017 was an especially rewarding year. For those paying attention, Hitchcock is seemingly everywhere – in concert, […]
TJWEST Top 10 Albums By Kim Grant 1. Andy Warhols dream – Trevor Sensor 2. Canyons of My Mind – Andrew Combs 3. Ben Bostick – Ben Bostick 4. In The Alps – Phoebe Bridgers 5. Wow and Flutter – Amilia K. Spicer 6. Barefoot in the Head – Chris Robinson Brotherhood 7. Brand New Day – The Mavericks 8. Lotta Sea […]
It’s the night after Christmas in 2017, and I’m sitting on my bed surrounded by a pile of old No Depression magazines. I pulled them down off the top shelf in my bedroom closet because I have a deadline looming […]
2017 has been a challenging year in many ways. The symbolic turning of the first page of the calendar into the first day of the new year represents for many a chance to start over with a clean slate and […]
Christmas 2017 in Seattle could not have been complete without the annual performance by The Brian Setzer Orchestra at The Paramount Theatre. As I walked up to the venue, there were four tour buses and a couple of semis taking […]
Every day a new tweet that summons the darkest aspects of humanity. Every day another assault on the rule of law, on the norms of decency and the common good. I’ve been working to make the world a better place […]
This week’s column continues my thoughts from last week about how I got to bluegrass (and other music throughout my life). … And then life happened. We (that’s Irene, who’s always the “we” in my blogs and columns … has […]
While I’ve often struggled to find the enduring value of year-end lists of music, I’ve now come to think of such lists as thank-you notes to the artists whose music and lyrics have brightened my days, lifted me out of […]
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