The Bull’s Head in Barnes, just upriver from central London, is a lovely riverside pub on a quiet residential street. The Thames, improbably thinner here than it is just a few miles downstream, flows past the pub on the south […]
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The Woodstock Library Fair is in its 84th year. For a holiday Saturday in the handsome little hamlet of Woodstock, people convene every summer to celebrate books, reading, and the love of both. This year, the Fair was more crowded […]
Singer-songwriter James Maddock had a birthday last week — the day before we spoke about his new record, The Green (Casa del Fuego/Julian Records, 2015). “Oh, happy birthday,” I said enthusiastically, when he mentioned it. “Ah,” he said in mock regret. “I’m […]
Liverpool graces the banks of a freezing cold River Mersey, just a few miles from Brooklyn. This beautiful area marks the home of a celebrated musician, whose birthplace museum is, most appropriately, in the former railway station. Before you are further confused, […]
When WERE they going to get together? An ironic question, to be sure. Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams have been married for decades, though separated for most of that time by their careers. But, starting in the mid-2000s, they made grand music […]
Bhi Bhiman has had a busy spring. I saw him back in February in New York, when he opened Booker T. Jones’s show at City WInery. He’d been on the road since November 2014, and after the New York show he […]
That’s two n’s in Kennedy, and two in Connor, too. Stop with the Conor, folks. He’s not R.F.K.’s grandson, or a guy who dated Taylor Swift. Connor Kennedy, guitar man, composer, soaking up music of all kinds and playing with grace […]
Richard Thompson is touring America now. On stage with him: an acoustic guitar; a glass of water; a container of baby powder; a stool on which he does not sit while he performs. If you value a legend who can […]
Back in January, Steve Earle and Willie Nile had to cancel their City Winery show because of our awful New York winter weather. It’s April now, though still too cold for me, and the gentlemen reconvened with us for a […]
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