A touch of Texas in New York never comes amiss, and on December 17 Billy Joe Shaver brought much more than a touch along with him and his top-flight band. Celebrated songwriter, singer, raconteur, and man who loves living, 75-year-old […]
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Rhett Miller threw his second annual Holiday Extravaganza at City Winery NYC, and loud liquid revels were had in the name of the somewhat darker side of Christmas. Miller apologized, with a grin, for so many songs about drinking, sex, […]
After some months of — pardon me — shadowboxing over the release details, it’s official. BobDylan.com announced today that Dylan’s much-anticipated album, Shadows In The Night, will be released on February 3. Dylan himself, under his longtime nom de produire Jack Frost, […]
The Beacon Theatre is one of my favorite music venues in New York City. Opened just after the Crash of 1929, the Beacon is a wonder of fantastical Manhattan Modernism, its golden interior with gigantic Greek goddesses, and murals redolent […]
The story of the Basement Tapes – those songs recorded in 1967 at a house known as Big Pink in West Saugerties, NY, by Bob Dylan and The Band – is a quintessential American-music story, with all the appropriate elements […]
“East Jerusalem / West Jerusalem” at Woodstock Steve Earle and David Broza collaborate on a music project for art and peace Last night in Woodstock, New York, the 15th annual Woodstock Film Festival kicked off with a screening of the documentary […]
Good morning, everyone. If you go to the website of Esquire magazine, you can listen to another new-and-old track from The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: Bob Dylan and The Band, The Basement Tapes Complete. The article by Jeff Slate accompanying […]
Good times below stairs Once upon a time, a bunch of musicians, their families, their dogs, and their neighbors and friends all lived in, or near, Woodstock, Bearsville, and Saugerties, New York. I begin “once upon a time” because that’s […]
This week, a funky, gritty single dropped — remember singles? It has the feeling of a classic 45, to be played by your local radio station until the disc scratches. From Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes, it’s […]
Since Levon Helm began hosting his Midnight Rambles, in his home studio — “The Barn” — in Woodstock, I’ve been going. Nights of legend happened every Saturday there was music there: Those magical, small, early shows with Alexis P. Suter and Olabelle, […]
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