Compounded by generations of unwavering respect to the music and self-imposed rigidity, bluegrass continues to be highly wary of change. The genre often is stagnant to the point of self-parody. Tradition is rich and reverent, but it’s also stifling to […]
Jimmy Lumpkin &The Revival Home Skate Mountain Records Since there is little information about the band other than to note that Jimmy Lumpkin is from Alabama, reckon we are free to make up our own stories about them: […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave Some things can’t be written about without diminishing them. Anoushka Shankar’s newest CD of Indian classical music, ‘Home’ is like that. After listening to it over and over again for the past week as Vancouver continues to […]
Any precocious 12-year-old can write at length, and in iambic pentameter, about being and nothingness. That experience seeds within the nascent songwriter (or critic) the strong prejudice that only by studying the blackness of one’s soul might one possibly create […]
