Why cover songs? Earlier this year, Bob Dylan said, in his now famous MusiCares speech, “Big Bill Broonzy had a song called ‘Key to the Highway’… I sang that a lot. If you sing that a lot, you just might write […]
Why cover songs? Earlier this year, Bob Dylan said, in his now famous MusiCares speech, “Big Bill Broonzy had a song called ‘Key to the Highway’… I sang that a lot. If you sing that a lot, you just might write […]
“Do I look like a loser?” Bob Neuwirth introduces himself amid a fanfare of trumpets (literally) in the opening bars of his 1974 solo debut. A loser, no — but not exactly a winner either, this Sasquatch-sized footnote to American […]
How good are these forgotten, spare, living room recordings? Set against any singer-songwriter record in the ten years since its first appearance in 1988, the songs still shine like beautiful roadside bits of glass or chrome. The graceful ease of […]
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