Nonesuch Records, August, 2012 By Dan King Woody Guthrie did it. Pete Seeger did it. Joan Baez did it. Many musical artists down through time have enlisted their craft to make a political point or foster social change. August 2012 […]
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Written by Dan King Byron Berline loves to play the fiddle. You can tell. There is a contagious energy that comes off his strings when he’s bowing that sounds simultaneously athletic and poetic. Witness the impressive display of fiddle gymnastics […]
by Dan King Back in 1975, David Allen Coe came out with a cute little ditty about how to write the perfect country and western song. In it, he explained that the perfect country and western song had to make […]
By Dan King I bought a fiddle. ‘Twas a strange-looking animal, much smaller than the guitars I had slung around since the fifth grade. Smaller, four strings instead of six, and tuned upside-down in comparison to the bottom four strings […]
by Dan King Chicago is a town known far and wide for its own special brand of blues. Many icons of the genre were spawned in the windy city including Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and Howlin’ Wolf. Chicago is also […]
Flash back to 1976. My friend Lloyd and I had made the hundred mile trip from Phoenix to Tucson to see Paul McCartney and Wings on the only Arizona stop of their now legendary Wings Over America tour. Paul’s choice […]
by Dan King On a recent field trip to Zia Records, I discovered two albums in the Bluegrass/Americana section that would fit the criteria for review on Prescription Bluegrass. One was Leonard Cohen’s “Old Ideas” and the other was […]
by Dan King Back in the late ’60′s, there wasn’t much to do in Phoenix Arizona. On summer afternoons, the mercury would routinely spike to 110 degrees and the prevailing wisdom was to take dental records along if you were […]
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