Why “triplicate”? There are many ways to say things that come in threes. Some are musical, some are baseball, some sexy or political or bookish or religious or painterly: trio, triad, triple, trinity, triptych, triumvirate, threesome, tripartite, trilogy. Why did Dylan […]
Lucian King Truscott IV is, to quote Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story (1940), no homespun tag. Its bearer has a long American heritage on both sides of his family: grandfather Lucian Truscott Jr. was a highly decorated World War II general; […]
About a week after last November’s presidential election, I started getting emails from writers who were working on stories for this issue, asking for extensions. Though a couple of them had to do with the typical things — tracking down […]
Three cheers and more for Steve Berkowitz and Jeff Rosen, compilation producers, and Mark Wilder, mastering engineer, for their GRAMMY win this afternoon. Bob Dylan’s official Bootleg series has only gained in breadth, depth and content since its dazzing debut with […]
Remember when weekends were just for laying around and not doing much of anything? Now there’s a protest on every corner and a lot of people searching for ways to vent their frustration, their anger, their fears. Music, as always, […]
Daniel Rayzel is a native of Brazil who came to the U.S. with his family when he was only 3 years old. At 20 now, he is also probably our youngest DJ to be featured. He’s studying journalism with a minor in documentary […]
The following is a continuation of my article Half-forgotten Folksingers from the ’60s Greenwich Village Folk Scene. This one adds five more artists to the list. Dave Van Ronk Many were introduced to Van Ronk by the popular film Inside Llewyn […]
Amidst the hubbub surrounding Bob Dylan winning the Nobel for Literature, I’ve been listening to a recording of him singing a song he didn’t write — an obscure, unreleased outtake from the soundtrack to Hearts of Fire, the star vehicle-gone-wrong […]
We live in a political world The one we can see and feel But there’s no one to check It’s all a stacked deck. — Bob Dylan, “Political World” The protest song is nearly as old as songs themselves. […]
To those of us who were around the folk music scene of the sixties and to either academic or armchair ethnomusicologists, guitarists both old and young of the past and present, Bruce Langhorne is not unfamiliar. And should you not […]
