“Legendary” is hardly a sufficient a word to describe Norman Davis and his amazing radio career. For the sake of space, I have not included every station from his over 60 years in radio. Please go to his Radio Thrills […]
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Music writers have the difficult task of describing music with words. Geoffrey Himes is one of the best. I’ve seen him through the years when I visit Nashville for the Americana conference. He’s always at the good shows and wears great T-shirts! […]
Chuck Berry is 90 years old today. Many fêtes to you, sir. John Lennon, a wise man about much, suggested once that, if we needed another name for rock and roll, or rock’n’roll, we could just call it “Chuck Berry.” […]
With the summer touring season over, many artists have turned their attention to the studio to begin work on their next project. That means a lot of new crowdfunding options as artists coincide writing and recording with pre-orders or fundraising […]
The May 29 edition of the New York Times Magazine carried a piece by Chuck Klosterman called “Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember?” In the article, Klosterman postulates that in 300 years, all that anyone would remember of rock would be […]
It wasn’t the weather for hitchhiking, but that didn’t stop Peter Rowan, one cold winter night in the early 1960s. “I hitchhiked from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York — way upstate — all the way down to Washington, D.C., one […]
Many people think of bluegrass music and hillbilly music in the same breath. Old-time, a description often applied to string band music as it developed in the first third of the 20th century in the mountains, hills, and hollers of […]
“You’re kind of well-known, but you are kind of obscure.” That’s a comment Jimmy LaFave has heard before, he told me after his stellar outdoor show on Aug. 4 in a park in Ridgefield, CT. The Austin-based singer-songwriter says the […]
In 2013, I attended the Americana Music Association Awards and Honors show at Ryman Auditorium. It was a memorable evening, to say the least, with some of the best Americana artists and legends on stage and in the audience. But the […]
With The Rascals’ reputation of creating some of the most wondrous blue-eyed soul classics in rock history, it may not be too surprising which concert was Felix Cavaliere’s all-time favorite. “Just forget about it,” The Rascals’ keyboard player and singer […]
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