Daniel and Lauren Goans retreat from the constant motion of life on the road and resurface with a collection of songs that are bracing in their honesty, transparent in their affection, seductive in their vulnerability. The result is Thin, eleven […]
Music memoirs are all the rage these days. Every fall, major publishers flood bookstores with the latest stories from artists driven to tell every detail of a life well, or not-so-well, lived and the music they made and that propelled […]
The history of session musicians goes back to the 1920s and ’30s, when the major record labels each had their own “studio bands” that could quickly crank out the latest pop hits. Many of the musicians were in working bands […]
There surely is tremendous inner tumult when you know you’ve got something extraordinary, know you’ve got something important to say — and can mentally hear it portrayed in a definite manner — but are restricted by auxiliary commitments. Quentin Jones founded Pennsylvania’s Lanark Records. While […]
It may not be in quite the same league as the way young Brits like The Rolling Stones and Cream re-introduced Americans to their own blues heritage back in the Sixties and Seventies, but is the UK now exporting Americana […]
More two reviews in one than a comparative analysis, really. A simple, dry bonehead rundown of music in its most technical (read, emotional) aspects. If I was a mathematician, this would be numbers; a computer programmer, 1’s and 0’s; a […]
A large cluster of industrial buildings that still remain on Cleveland’s near east side were once home to iron foundries, motors, tube, metals and machine works. Named after the once thriving Tyler Elevator Company, the area now is the hub […]
As my wife and I have traveled over the last 15 years, during what some would call our retirement, we’ve experienced bluegrass music as what I thought to be a national music phenomenon. Recently, I read a book called Bluegrass […]
How about that Super Bowl, eh? Sportsing aside, Lady Gaga pulled off the remarkable feat of offending nobody and entertaining everybody with her halftime show. Before it started, everyone wondered if she’d make some sort of political statement in this […]
I was struck by a thought during this masterly, fun filled Mastersons performance. It was this: things are the wrong way round, given the qualities of their current musical output – rather than Chris and Eleanor playing as part of […]
