STOP THE CLOUDS A review of Barney Hoskyns’ new book, ‘Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock’. Isis Issue 184 February/March 2016 pages 35-36 ‘Small Town Talk’ by Barney […]
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It happened in June of 1967, before Woodstock and Altamont. The Beatles were still a band that had four singles in the top ten. Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits was released and it landed on the charts behind the Monkees, the […]
I’ll Carry For You: Artist pens tribute to Henderson sisters There’s nothing so beautiful as sisterly love. In less than two weeks, Canadian siblings Brooke and Brittany Henderson are set to team up, on the fairways of Rio, as golf […]
Most music book publishers release their best books in the fall — roughly August to January, depending on the publishing house — and I had the opportunity just a few months ago to plod, trudge, or breeze through door-stopping memoirs […]
Americana music can claim several music towns as its home. There was Austin in the early 1970s, Laurel Canyon during the same time, Muscle Shoals in the late ’60s and early ’70s (though less a scene in the same sense […]
When Nashville based singer-songwriter Sarah Potenza was five years old, thanks to her parents’ good taste, she heard Joe Cocker sing the Leonard Cohen classic “Bird on a Wire.” In a recent interview she said, “I loved the sound of […]
Bill Graham And The Rock and Roll Revolution show opens today at The Skirball Center. If you are a lover of the rock and roll, you want to check this one out for sure. We heard a little speech from the Skirball people, […]
One of the saddest things about Janis Joplin’s death is that her life and career seemed to be on the upswing at the time. She’d toured successfully with her new backing group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, and she was […]
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