Folk music festivals everywhere tend to be pretty casual affairs. The music is revered and celebrated, but not so much that everyone has to Take It Very Seriously. It’s about being human together, listening to each other, with music. There’s […]
Music memoirs fall generally into three categories. Some, like Gregg Allman’s My Cross to Bear (William Morrow), tiresomely catalog an artist’s immersion in sex, drugs, and rock and roll, providing very little insight into the artist’s music or the value […]
The last edition of The Reading Room included a list of forty music books of 2015 worthy of attention. Although I didn’t think of the list as a “best-of” list, the first ten titles do represent my personal Top 10: […]
What’s most impressive about Kristin Hersh’s eleventh record since leaving Throwing Muses (eight solo, three with 50 Foot Wave) is her total and fearless commitment to artistry, owing nothing to no one, no hint of influence or desire to please […]
