No, it’s not an April Fools joke. Poundcake is really quite good for you. The New York-based trio of Teddy Thompson, Jeff Hill, and Ethan Eubanks play the songs you can’t remember far back enough to recall not knowing, and they […]
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I say Booker T, and you say Hammond B3. Yes, that’s been the correct answer for more than 50 years. But, dear fellow music lovers, Mr. Booker T. Jones is infinitely more than the instrument he indisputably owns. Fifty-three years ago, Booker […]
Roots can dig deep and spread wide, but first they need solid ground. Luckily, the old marshes of Boston – with their old English name, the fens – have been steadily filled in since the 1600s, so that only a […]
“Thank you for making the good choice to come to City Winery tonight … instead of going to see some other fucker,” said Colin Hay, with a beaming and courtly smile at the end of his first song, the gorgeous […]
Clips from the concert, and from Dylan’s speech, at the Grammys.
Richard Thompson was the reason most of the people in the sold-out house were at City Winery NYC on a cold Thursday night, but Teddy is the Thompson to thank for these shows and the excellent album for which they’re spreading […]
First Impressions of Bob Dylan’s New Album Swoony strings, the low scrape of a bow on a bass, and, most of all, a singer: his mouth opening; his breath as he inhales; his voice. That’s what you hear on Shadows in the […]
Like Guy Clark says, “Listen to this song….listen to that song.” From Heartworn Highways (filmed 1975-6), Steve Earle, who is 60 today, sings “Mercenary Song.”
Steve Earle on a front porch with his guitar, singing the blues. You’ve dreamed the words and phrases: hair hanging down; kisses like wine; turn your light down low. Yet Earle spins them around on you, mixes it up, dazzles […]
“The Kinks at the Harold Pinter Theatre, tonight. What time?” my husband asked. I felt faint, even sitting down, for just a second: I was dreaming. Then I remembered — oh yes. The Kinks, the musical. We were celebrating a new year with […]
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