I promised video interviews with Jenni Muldaur when I posted the night after her record release, and they are now at Smoke, along with a song from the record, James Brown’s “Lost Someone.” If you’re a singer’s singer, someone others […]
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The great digital slipstream that pours cultural riches onto our screens has created smaller and more intriguing tributaries, the mypace and aol musics of the world narrowing to sites that serve niche enthusiasts. This site and the eagerly-awaited No Depression […]
Lou Reed, Jenni Muldaur and David Byrne outside NYC’s The Living Room at the release party for her new album Dearest Darlin’. Photo by Stephen Clemmer. Last night at The Living Room on New York’s Lower East Side, Jenni Muldaur […]
There are powerful places in our shared musical heritage that exert an influence far out of proportion to their size or location or duration. The Fillmores were such places. Ash Grove was another. Now, after preserving and presenting Bill Graham’s […]
Black Postcards, Dean Wareham’s tour guide to a rock star’s soul, gets its paperback release this week, setting the stage for a spring and summer that includes Dean and Britta appearances live and on DVD with 13 Most Beautiful… Songs […]
An essential link between country and rock has passed: Vern Gosdin. Gosdin was a singer known as The Voice, a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, mandolin, and banjo), and a songwriter with a string of country hits that stretch from West Coast country […]
Anticipating his new release, Together Through Life, Bob Dylan sat for a long interview with Bill Flanagan. One passage about his favorite songwriters stood out because Gordon Lightfoot seems to be getting acknowledged more in the last couple of years […]
Punk rock sniffed around country music right from the start, whether finding fellow travelers in the outlaw stance of Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard or Waylon Jennings — or taking the piss out of spangles and Nudie suits. But, as Country […]
Before the impressions fade and while my ears still ring… Jon Langford, Doug Sahm, the Silos, Olson and Louris and more: We climbed into the Cathedral of Junk until there was nothing but blue sky above. Through sun glints from […]
Victor Krummenacher, the bass player for Camper Van Beethoven, gave Smoke Music a thoughtful remembrance of Dewey Martin, the late drummer for Buffalo Springfield. Dewey Martin , the drummer of the Buffalo Springfield, passed away last week at the age […]
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