Elli, Bernett and I were safely on the E train, under Manhattan, under the river, under Brooklyn and Queens, while it poured. When we got out at Forest Hills, though, the whole world was wet, and colorful clouds boded no […]
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Levon Helm’s Midnight Rambles were in full rolling glory in the winter of 2011. One Saturday night that December had long been anticipated — for starters, Donald Fagen would be joining Levon’s band that evening. But there were also two guest acts on […]
Since June 4th, I’ve enjoyed reading other people’s reviews of Bob Dylan’s current tour, with Mavis Staples. The tour was announced back in March to much happy anticipation from people who’ve enjoyed hearing the two performers for 50 years, and […]
Early this month, Amanda Palmer announced a new record, You Got Me Singing, that she has made with her father, Jack Palmer. Amanda — a founding member of the Dresden Dolls, leader of the Grand Theft Orchestra, singer-songwriter, performer, and writer — seems to […]
As part of the centenary commemorations of a flashpoint year in Irish — and English — history, two twinned events have been held in Dublin and London in 2016. The first was called “Imagining Home: England,” and it happened on March 29 in […]
Hey, everybody. Time to stop thinking you can figure out Bob Dylan’s next move. Haven’t the past fifty years taught us anything on that front? His new record, Fallen Angels, continues in the rich and all-American vein of the one […]
To write a live review of a Prince show never occurred to me. You were — God, that past tense jars — so much in the moment, and with the people around you. Who wanted to be making mental notes, […]
The song, Jerry Jeff Walker tells us, is about an old street performer he met while in jail in New Orleans. Walker was in for the night after drinking too much, and the performer — a homeless white man — […]
Last night, Bob Dylan released the tenth track from his forthcoming album Fallen Angels. “Melancholy Mood” is itself as simple and clean as the record spinning around: just Dylan’s voice and the instruments, unembellished and unadorned. The song, by Vick […]
How lovely it is to road trip when someone else is doing the driving. Sure, I love to be behind the wheel, but not heading down the East Coast on I-95 into Washington, DC. Amtrak took me there a few Saturdays […]
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