by Douglas Heselgrave Sometimes, it’s difficult to figure out why a particular piece of music affects us in the way it does. On the surface there may be nothing especially remarkable about it, nothing to distinguish it from so many […]
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By Douglas Heselgrave In purely visual terms, there has never been a better argument put forward for the continued existence of the physical CD format than ‘Orient-Occident II: Hommage a la Syrie’ provides. The idea that the packaging, artwork and […]
Holiday music reviews by Douglas Heselgrave Songs For A Winter’s Night – Reid Jamieson I don’t know how I missed it, but somewhere between the release of his debut CD, ‘Staring Contest’ and what could be mistaken for a simple […]
“Woody Guthrie’s Wardy Forty,” by Philip Buehler in Collaboration with Nora Guthrie and The Woody Guthrie Archives Review and interview by Douglas Heselgrave When Nora Guthrie invited me to call her at her home to talk about ‘Woody Guthrie’s Wardy […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave One of the many great things that’s come out of the recent major label rush to release huge collections of classic artists’ work in affordable box sets and greatest hits packages is that it encourages people […]
It’s been nearly forty years since I first heard an old Dave Van Ronk record at a friend’s house near my old high school, and it’s probably been about a dozen years since I’ve given his music much thought at […]
The Grateful Dead finally release their ‘greatest concert’ as a lavish 3 CD/DVD box set It’s not always easy loving the Grateful Dead. Anyone who’s a Deadhead already knows how much abuse such an affection can entail and has probably […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave You’ve got to be either very tough or very foolhardy to consider writing a biography of Bob Dylan this late in the game. The subject in question has expressed so much derision, bafflement, and bemusement over […]
Joni Mitchell – The Studio Albums 1968- 1979 Paul Simon – The Complete Albums Collection We live in a time of great reckoning. At least that’s what you’d think if you took what’s going on in the record business as […]
Riverside Jazz Reissues – Chet Baker, Wes Montgomery, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley with Milt Jackson Mulatku Astake ‘Sketches of Ethiopia’ Peggy Lee ‘Invitation’ Madeleine Peyroux ‘The Blue Room’ By Douglas Heselgrave It’s the middle of […]
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