Patti Smith is a singer-songwriter, performer, poet, and philosopher. Did you know she is also a photographer? Since March of this year, Smith has been posting photographs, many taken by herself, along with others meaningful to her and upon which […]
Bob Dylan recorded “Girl From the North Country” in New York City in April 1963, and it quickly became one of his best-known short sweet ballads. The tale of a woman living in the “north country fair” who was “once […]
The Philadelphia Eagles won Super Bowl LII on Sunday night, and there was much rejoicing in all parts south of Nomans Land Island National Wilderness, the point in the state of Massachusetts closest to the Equator. However, I am here […]
How many Midnight Rambles have I gone to at Levon Helm’s home on Plochmann Lane in Woodstock, New York, from 2004 until the present day? Suffice it to say, simply, more than a hundred. Other folks went many more times […]
Springsteen On Broadway is acoustic, or a cappella, but its beginning is electric: Bruce Springsteen, alone, on a spare stage with his spotlight. There are a couple of barstools, a center microphone, a grand piano, two glasses of water. Against […]
On a cold November night in 1998, I went with two friends to hear Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell at University of Maryland’s Cole Field House. Mitchell strutted on stage by herself, smoking and toting an acoustic guitar. Stowing her cigarette somewhere […]
“Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.” — Proverbs 31:7 “Some day baby / You ain’t gonna trouble poor me any more.” — Sleepy John Estes, Someday Baby Blues (1935), sung as Trouble No […]
In my younger and more vulnerable years, back in Boston in October of 1989, I scored a right and left cross of The Waterboys and Bob Dylan. On a Sunday night in October, with the leaves turning on the Common and cold […]
How could a little kid understand those lyrics? I didn’t. I just loved singing this song along with my father more than any other one when we were driving somewhere in the car. It’s knowin’ that your door is always open […]
