Folk music festivals everywhere tend to be pretty casual affairs. The music is revered and celebrated, but not so much that everyone has to Take It Very Seriously. It’s about being human together, listening to each other, with music. There’s […]
The stretch of Highway 30A between Rosemary Beach and Miramar, Florida, is a quaint, picturesque roadside that looks as if it were torn straight from a brochure for snowbirds. Gently colored buildings house craft breweries and seafood restaurants, woodfired pizza, yoga, […]
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 […]
Dan Bern is one of the more freewheeling folk revivalists around — or should that be folk-revival revivalists? Coming at you like a ringer for Dylan before easing toward the tenement-tough delivery of underground New York rocker Willie Nile, the […]
Dan Bern’s new American language is pretty age-old, truth be told. Bern’s songs in the past have referenced Marilyn Monroe, Mother Teresa, Tiger Woods, and Charles Manson. Language contains nods to Eminem, Britney, and Keith Richards. Bern, god help him, […]
Dan Bern doesn’t qualify to float in the seemingly endless stream of new Dylans. He’s more like a Dylan impersonator. If the original folksters of the ’60s start making pilgrimages to tacky bars in Vegas to see stage shows, Bern […]
