Upon hearing of Glenn Frey’s passing this afternoon, my thoughts turned almost immediately to Don Felder, the great guitarist whose signature lines helped shape and define much of The Eagles’ music from 1974 to 2001. Felder was summarily dismissed from […]
Written by Dan King Having been a CD reviewer for Prescription Bluegrass in the past, as well as having written for various other publications including my own, it came as no large surprise when I received a package in the […]
Masterful song construction with a hard-edged delivery, that’s Bob Dylan in a nutshell. In one of Dylan’s early works, both the song title and lyric warn that ”The times they are a’ changing.” But whether times have changed since then is debatable. The best selling book […]
I’m gonna’ go out on a limb here and say that Bluegrass Music holds the key to the future of Country Music. As today’s “Country” drifts farther and farther away from the traditional definitions and closer every day to the realm […]
Due to an enrollment overload of adolescent baby boomers, I spent the first two years of my high school experience on double sessions. Interestingly, among that large sea of blemished teenage faces and new social experience, I could have counted […]
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the greatest Dobro player of all? Faced with that query, most magic mirrors would probably respond by saying that Jerry Douglas has been, and is, the premier Dobro player of our time. And […]
The roots of the Christmas holiday go all the way back to Bethlehem some 2000 years ago. It was there, as the story goes, that a child named Jesus was born in a manger and lived to become the figurehead of […]
Music. It means something different to each any every one of us. Much of what a specific piece of music means to an individual has to do with not only what the people creating the music have been through, but also what the listener has experienced in their […]
Great news! The dog didn’t eat my No Depression homework! Here is my list of Favorite CD’s of 2012. The candidates were limited to recordings I’ve actually heard, so this list is by no means a comprehensive expose on the BEST […]
by Dan King I must confess Ravi Shankar and I had a rocky relationship. It had nothing to do with his undeniable talent and virtuosity on his chosen instrument, the sitar. Instead it had everything to do with the visions of sugar […]
