In October 1988 I had the pleasure of seeing a Neil Young & The Bluenotes concert in an old 1920s movie palace. Beautiful venue and great memorable concert. I had purchased the Neil Young & The Bluenotes studio album before […]
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Some came from New York, some from Las Vegas. Others traveled from rural America, where family farmers struggle most. No matter where they followed the white line from, all came to Farm Aid 30 for the same two reasons: the music and the […]
I’m in the process of reviewing an album with 18 tracks on it. So what, I hear you ask; that’s value for money, right? Maybe, maybe not. I know that when I looked at the PR and saw the listing […]
It wasn’t Atlantis, but the most magical moment of Donovan’s musical career did occur “way down by the ocean.” On a noisy, congested little island filled with taxi cabs near the Atlantic Ocean on Oct. 17, 1969, Donovan sang his […]
There were plenty of valid reasons for the five-year gap between Allison Moorer’s acclaimed 2010 album Crows and her new album Down to Believing. “Well, I’ll give you the list,” she says when I ask. “I became a parent. I […]
When I first heard that Neil Young posted a message on Facebook on July 15 telling his fans and followers that he had made a decision to pull his music off of all music streaming sites, my first reaction was […]
On July 29, the tireless Neil Young releases what is probably his most stridently political and environmentally activist album, The Monsanto Years. Teaming up with Willie Nelson’s sons, Luke and Micah, and their band, Promise of the Real, Young delivers […]
When Randy Bachman wrote the line “Here’s somethin’ that you’re never gonna forget” in Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s No. 1 single “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” he wasn’t talking about a memorable rock concert. But there was a concert 45 years ago […]
Link Wray died of heart failure at the age of 76 in his adopted city of Copenhagen, Denmark, on November 5, 2005, but the news didn’t break worldwide until weeks later. When that message did arrive, it might have seemed […]
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