Maybe I’m crazy, or maybe it’s the vocal harmonies, but, although the two bands’ music is different, I get a vision of a California-based Jayhawks when I listen to GospelbeacH. When I mention that to Brent Rademaker, GospelbeacH’s founder, songwriter, […]
Chris Barron’s new record, Angels and One-Armed Jugglers, is quite different from his work as lead singer of the Spin Doctors. It was also quite different to get a slap from the New York City Police Department while recording it. […]
Heading to last September’s three-day FreshGrass festival in North Adams, Massachusetts, I was most excited about getting a chance to see guitarist Bill Frisell perform his musical work titled Harmony. I had never seen Frisell live, and he was masterful, […]
I view Peter Himmelman as one of America’s best, yet unsung, songwriters, so I ask him his views about the unsung part. “I’m smiling at this question, and it’s a good one,” he says. “It unlocks a lot of things […]
Forgive me, Men at Work fans, because your beloved band didn’t grab me in its heyday. It was the early 1980s, and my mind was fixated on Captain Beefheart on David Letterman’s show and the emergence of many new, innovative […]
It was a night with the Allman Brothers Band that I will never forget. Dickey Betts and the entire band were on fire, and my close friend Paul Rogers and I sat mesmerized in the second row at the Shoreline […]
Thea Gilmore doesn’t subscribe to the belief that an artist’s best work comes early in his or her career. “I think one of the biggest myths in music is that you make your best art when you’re super young,” the […]
Fourteen months ago, the music world lost legendary rock and roller Leon Russell. His keyboard wizardry, clever songwriting, and unique, gravelly voice are sorely missed, but he left us a posthumous present, On a Distant Shore, to savor forever. Mark […]
Matthew O’Neill’s goal when recording his most recent album, Trophic Cascade, was “timelessness,” and with so much creative musical diversity flowing through it, its appeal will undoubtedly last for many generations. Trophic Cascade, released on the environmental record label Underwater […]
Watching King Crimson’s intricate two-hour-and-40-minute concert last month at The Egg in Albany, New York, I could only wonder whether any other rock band touring today could top the eight-man prog juggernaut. King Crimson is an unabashed dynamo with three […]
