Fourteen months ago, the music world lost legendary rock and roller Leon Russell. His keyboard wizardry, clever songwriting, and unique, gravelly voice are sorely missed, but he left us a posthumous present, On a Distant Shore, to savor forever. Mark […]
We’ve made it to the end of a rough week – the senseless murder of dozens of people gathered to enjoy music together, the death of beloved rock icon Tom Petty, [insert your preferred target of outrage here]. Thank heavens we have […]
Leon Russell is gone, but his music lives on. His last release, On a Distant Shore, is a love letter from beyond the grave, a final fond farewell to loyal fans and a fitting endpiece to a long and eclectic […]
I read the obituaries. Have for years. First thing when I open the Times every morning, I turn to the last pages of the B-section. It is not a morbid thing, it’s a small gesture of attention that I pay to […]
I will always remember sitting in the movie theater as a kid watching Leon Russell steal the show during The Concert For Bangladesh, wondering who and what this mystical force was. It was no small feat since he was a […]
Leon Russell, the 74-year-old piano man and southern rock icon, passed away last night in Tennessee. The manager of his Facebook page delivered the news with a sobering tone earlier this morning: “Musician Leon Russell has died in Nashville at […]
Over the past week or so, while there were some exciting festivals going on in the eastern half of the US, there was an extremely nice one-day celebration of the 75th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The […]
Margaret Glaspy is from Califonia but now lives in New York City’s Upper West Side, by way of Boston’s Berklee College of Music. While she was born to two guitarists, she originally took up the fiddle before finally seeing that guitars were her future. […]
Blast from the past…Leon Russell performing at the 2011 Bumbershoot in Seattle, Washington.
Randall Bramblett says his new album, Devil Music, is “a good bit nastier and edgier than my other records.” With such a title, that aim may be understandable for the veteran singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. The album and its title track […]
