Snow was general over the mountains, just a little more to the north, but Woodstock basked over Thanksgiving weekend in chilly air and the last fall leaves, hanging on and brightening the streets and yards of the little town. The […]
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Roanoke is a beautiful small city cupped by the Blue Ridge Mountains, resting on the banks of the Roanoke River in the Roanoke Valley, which is at the southern tip of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. These places take their name from […]
“Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast,” Bob Dylan laments in “You’re a Big Girl Now” (1972). Time also, as Hamlet notes, and often, is flexible, open to interpretation, and may, like a crab, run backward. This past […]
Seoul, South Korea, October 23rd Where I am now, in a downtown hotel in Seoul seven and a half thousand miles from Stockholm, people are talking about the Nobel Prize in Literature. There were a variety of just-concluded literary conferences in […]
Chuck Berry is 90 years old today. Many fêtes to you, sir. John Lennon, a wise man about much, suggested once that, if we needed another name for rock and roll, or rock’n’roll, we could just call it “Chuck Berry.” […]
In the wake of the — to me — superb and delightful news of Bob Dylan receiving the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature this week, there has been, to quote a phrase from Dylan’s fellow Minnesota wordsmith F. Scott Fitzgerald, some foul […]
In 1966, Bob Dylan’s career had skyrocketed over the earth. Mary Campbell summed up what had happened in a lede that contains multitudes: “1965 was the big folk-rock year in pop music and slightly built, shy-spoken, gritty-voiced Bob Dylan was […]
Joe’s Field behind the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, or MASS MoCA, in North Adams, MA, is half a lopsided bowl, with a flat playing surface parallel to the museum and to the walled spill of the Hoosic River, and a long grassy shoulder […]
The boys in the band are dark-haired and lithe, and the lead singer is 75, but you don’t notice it. They’re all fine young Animals once the music begins. In 1962, a group of young men in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne formed a […]
Richard Thompson has recently graced the Hudson Valley with his summer songwriting and acoustic guitar camp, Frets and Refrains. Now in its fifth wildly successful year, Frets and Refrains welcomed to the ranks of instructors this time around a man who is, […]
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