This year’s Greenwich Wine & Food Festival, running from September 25-27 and benefiting the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp founded by the late Paul Newman, featured what has become customary: exhibitions on culinary culture, including assorted cooking demonstrations, food and […]
“I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to do,” Delbert McClinton says with matter-of-fact indignance, personifying the maverick reputation that often precedes him while in the same breath suggesting how he may have earned it in the first […]
His father may as well be Odysseus for all the reverence and mythologies ascribed to his lineage, but today Adam Cohen comes across as having struggled less with the notion of living in Leonard Cohen’s shadow than with living up […]
“I know when I’m writing something and I just get this feeling that comes over me,” singer/songwriter Megan Reilly explains. “And that’s really spiritual and powerful. “But it doesn’t always come,” she says in the next breath, “and that’s frustrating.” The […]
“It’s kind of scary,” says Buddy Guy, his voice quivering with ominous unease. “Blues music is like an endangered species almost. “The few of us that’s still left,” he adds, “they don’t play our music for some reason much anymore, […]
Sounding like something The Band would’ve had playing on a Victrola while making Music From Big Pink in Woodstock, the title track from Hurray For The Riff Raff’s upcoming LP Look Out Mama is a dustbowl cluster of folk, roots, […]
His father may as well be Odysseus for all the reverence and mythologies ascribed to his lineage, but Adam Cohen comes across as ultimately having struggled less with the notion of living in Leonard Cohen’s shadow than with living up […]
If the members of Good Old War share an abiding ambition for the music they make, it’s that each new record should be better than the last one. With their latest, Come Back as Rain (Sargent House), the indie-folk trio—Keith […]
Once guitarist and composer Bill Frisell began working on an album in tribute to John Lennon, memories and emotions he’d long associated with the late legend’s music, both with The Beatles and as a solo artist, caught up to him. […]
Like the most righteous of revelations, the one Steve Cropper experienced as young boy was a watershed. “I was probably a good 12 or 13 years old before I was allowed to listen to a radio,” the guitarist recalls. “I […]
