Fred Boenig has been in the “business” for many years and I admire his passion, honesty, and courage. That said, I feel that he’s a little harsh on the Americana Music Association and radio promoters. It should also be noted that Fred […]
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There’s not a more joyful, blissful album that embraces the perils of winter, the vagaries of loss, and the ominous underbelly of looking-back-wistfully than Birds of Chicago’s latest, Real Midnight. Songwriter JT Nero captures the dark underbelly of our happiness, and the […]
This week, I’m featuring Cayamo’s Journey through Song, a week-long floating music festival on the Norwegian Pearl. As you can read in the Southern Rambler’s articulate review of this year’s cruise, for many attendees, Cayamo is a musical family reunion — about 70 percent of […]
John Prine returns to Cayamo 2016 and performs many of his timeless hits.
Jason Wilbur performing with John Prine on Cayamo 2016.
It was by chance that Iris DeMent opened the book of Russian poetry sitting on her piano bench to Anna Akhmatova’s “Like A White Stone.” She’d never heard of the poet before, but a friend had loaned her the anthology, […]
Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man, by Robert Christgau This volume is sprawling, rambunctious, mesmerizing, sometimes tedious and dreary, often arrogant, yet nevertheless brimming with insight and more-than-simple pedantic reflections on life and love. […]
I doubt that anyone could have missed the news this week that, 40 years ago, Bruce Springsteen released his Born to Run album. Somebody somewhere was working hard behind the scenes, getting the word out. Stories popped up all over major television networks […]
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