Since she was young, my daughter Kristin has firmly stated that her wedding would be on the shoreline of Block Island with Blue Rodeo entertaining, and even now, at age 24, she keeps hinting. She doesn’t want to hear that […]
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It’s hard to forget playing or watching a concert at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in southwestern Colorado. With the towering, majestic San Juan Mountains surrounding the stage in a former Victorian mining town nearly 9,000 feet above sea level, I […]
Many noteworthy events happened 50 years ago: France withdrew from NATO, India suffered its worst famine in 20 years, Medicare began in the USA and the Supreme Court decided the Miranda vs. Arizona case, which established rights for people accused […]
Graham Nash says people need to speak out more today than ever before. With Election Day approaching, he’s not holding back. “I think Donald Trump is an incredibly dangerous man,” he tells me from his new home in New York City. […]
Jude Johnstone says it’s difficult to identify the best concert she has attended but gives the nod to Bonnie Raitt. Johnstone, who has opened several shows for Raitt, points to Raitt’s performance on May 24, 2015, at the Avila Beach […]
Duke Robillard was a tender age when he first got a dose of the blues. “The very first blues I ever heard that knocked me out was ‘Wee Wee Hours’ by Chuck Berry,” says Robillard, the gifted guitarist who was […]
Texas Monthly magazine once described Ali Holder’s music as “whiskey-soaked pieces of sad country-influenced songwriting that recalls Lucinda Williams and Ryan Adams.” Holder, who performs Wednesday (Oct. 12) in Brooklyn, New York, before returning home to Texas for 10 shows, […]
The beauty of Joan Shelley’s voice and music cascades like an ever-flowing mountain waterfall. Sprinkle in her poetic lyrics, and it’s easy to understand why the Kentucky-based singer-songwriter, who begins a 17-date tour with Patty Griffin on Oct. 30 at […]
Neil Young is one of rock and folk’s most mercurial and exciting live performers. Many of his shows through the years were spellbinding, and it’s difficult to pick a best show or tour. I remember incredible performances by Young with Crosby, Stills, […]
Herb Pedersen just finished an exciting tour playing with Tom Petty and Mudcrutch. Yet, I wonder how many Mudcrutch fans at those incredible full-blown rock shows now remember the name of the talented backup singer, acoustic guitarist and banjoist who […]
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