I don’t cry easily, but I came close when Prince died. I received the news as it broke, immediately blasted “Purple Rain” and allowed my mind to go blank for several minutes. The minutes turned into hours; as I came to […]
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The life and death of horns in Americana music produced by Caucasians can be traced back to two classic rockers, Bruce Springsteen and Glenn Frey. Watching Springsteen on his River tour last month in Seattle, Jake Clemons—succeeding his late uncle […]
As an impressive rainstorm has finally been hitting Northern California, I’m enjoying the calming rain-sounds as I finally get to share with you my conversation from back in October with indie musician M. Ward, in support of his eighth studio […]
Michael Timmins sees the newest Cowboy Junkies album, Notes Falling Slow, as “a nice stepping stone to whatever our next recording project will be.” The four-disc Notes Falling Slow, released in October, follows 2012’s wonderful five-disc box set, The Nomad […]
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, David Robert Jones was born to Peggy and John Jones in Brixton, southwest London. He was an imaginative child, by reports, and had musical aspirations as well as talent early on. His […]
2016 has begun as a year of passages witth a reminder of all things temporal especially the death of our culture heroes. It is a time for changes. For the iconic rock artist David Bowie and those who traveled along […]
Carly Simon might have been guided by the clouds in her coffee but David Bowie had mammoth moonage daydreams. There was something larger than life, other or outer-worldly about Bowie, who transformed folk songs originally made under his birth name Davy […]
On Jan. 8, 2016, David Bowie celebrated his 69th birthday — though quietly — and also released his new album, Blackstar, to wide critical acclaim. Bowie’s demonstrated his passionate musical genius by traversing musical borders, shifting sounds, forever trying out the […]
January 11. Last night I woke up at about 3 am and couldn’t get back to sleep. Usually I try to meditate when that happens but for some reason unknown, I picked up my phone and checked in and saw […]
As tributes pour in about the death of David Bowie, including Kim Ruehl’s excellent piece on this site, a recurring theme continues to resonate with me about this boundary pushing and genre-bending artist: He was always living in the moment […]
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