In maybe the best news of the year, the Man in Black returns, more than 20 years after his death, with new music on Songwriter. These 11 songs, which he wrote mostly in the late 1980s and early 1990s, capture […]
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For years the only Christmas album I had was Ella Fitzgerald’s Wishes You a Swinging Christmas (1960). Not that I had anything against the holiday season, but they all seemed to contain the same songs sung in the same heartfelt […]
There seems to be no end to the flood of books about Johnny Cash. Perhaps for good reason, since the Man in Black left a few words unsung — some of those were captured on the recent album Forever Words — […]
I’ve been a fan of Lenny Kravitz since we used our fake i.d.’s to get in to see him at First Avenue in Minneapolis back in the day. It was freezing cold out, but about a zillion degrees inside that […]
Hardly a day goes by when I’m not visiting YouTube multiple times, and it’s usually to search for music-related clips or the occasional instructional video on things like how to clean my Magic Bullet smoothie maker, fix a busted radiator hose, […]
This is the weekend where we examine the impact great fathers have made upon history. From the Bible, where the landscape is littered with the actions of fathers. Who could forget the long walk Abraham and his son took in […]
One dilemma I face as a songwriter is balancing authenticity and the sensibilities of the listener, my community of musicians, or even my friends and family. I have a lot to say that doesn’t get said through my songs out […]
My return to church last summer was at least unintentional if not quite accidental. I’d been to two services in 30 years; one Christmas Eve mass and one United Methodist Mother’s Day. Meditation and Buddhist teachings suit me. I’m […]
Tom Kimmel is one of a kind among many. There are quite a few singer songwriters, and Tom has being doing it for a long time. But, he’s one of the best, with a quality that shines through. So, it’s […]
Country music in America has long marketed towards and embodied an eclectic blend of common folk: typically, southern, lower-class, God-fearing, hard-working, blue-collar white men, found in Appalachian homes and hollers scattered well beneath the Mason-Dixon line. From the earliest decades […]
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