Jackson Browne performing at Bluesfest Byron Bay, NSW Australia
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My wife and I first drove up the steep hill to the top of the Wilkes Community College campus in late April of 2003. We had heard of the groundbreaking music festival known as MerleFest several years earlier, but now we […]
A delightful holiday party and a sudden Manhattan downpour both militated against my making a benefit gig for which I’d bought tickets for myself and two friends last Monday night, but I was determined not to miss it. People did come […]
There’s a tendency to oversimplify historical periods; i.e., “the 1950s were innocent,”[1] “the 1960s were decadent,”[2] when in fact, sociological gestalts are invariably complex, ripe with a variety of inevitably disparate ideologies and lifestyles. Speaking in terms of aesthetics, a […]
“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 […]
When Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow” won Song of the Year at the CMAs last year, it was heralded as something of a miracle, with Musgraves herself arriving at the podium and exclaiming, “Do you guys realize what this means […]
Man, when I hear “Concert for Social Justice”, I am, of course, there. The event was held last night at The Fonda in Hollywood by the Grammy Museum and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights to fund the organizations’ “Speak Up, Sing Out: […]
And she is out on a limb. Hannah Aldridge, the daughter of renowned songwriter Walt Aldridge, pours stark, wrenching realities into her music. She grew up in Muscle Shoals, and carries her Nashville influences on her sleeve. Her debut album […]
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