Five years ago, Bob Dylan warned of the dangers of ignoring racism in America Happy birthday to Bob Dylan, who was born on May 24, 1941, and once said in an interview, “When I was a boy, Harry Truman was […]
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An audio-visual companion to Pink Floyd’s “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn” album, “Cambridge St/ation” sheds light on a masterpiece, and a misunderstood genius Roger Waters got it all wrong. Roger “Syd” Barrett, founding member and guiding light of […]
Robyn Hitchcock – singer, songwriter, musician, artist, actor, philosopher, music critic, cult figure, and “last egg to hatch out from the 1960s” – has just released a new single with Australian songwriter, Emma Swift. “Love is a Drag” b/w “Life is Change,” […]
I first encountered Australian singer-songwriter Emma Swift in February of last year when I was in Texas, attending two Robyn Hitchcock concerts. One was in Austin, the other in Dallas, and Swift was on the bill both nights. Her repertoire of heartbreaking laments over […]
The new 36-CD box set, The 1966 Live Recordings, is an amazing journey back to an exciting time in music history. It follows many of the dates from Bob Dylan’s legendary, groundbreaking half-acoustic, half-electric tour of that year. (See my […]
Earlier today, Bob Dylan’s official website listed 26 additional concerts to take place in the southern U.S. states this fall. These dates were added to three previously announced shows – two opening for the Rolling Stones at “Desert Trip” (also known as “Dadchella”) on October 7 and […]
On Tuesday, D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary and groundbreaking documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of Britain, Dont (sic) Look Back, will be released and upgraded as part of the Criterion Collection. The film is available as either a blu-ray or 2 DVD […]
On page 13 of the booklet included in the new 6-CD set, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12, Bob Dylan 1965-1966, The Cutting Edge Deluxe Edition, there’s a photograph taken in mid-June, 1965, at Columbia Recording Studio A in New York City, […]
On Thursday night, the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City hosted a Lone Star Cafe reunion. According to the venue’s website: “The Lone Star Cafe, the brainchild of Mort Cooperman, was THE joint in New York City […]
Earlier this year, while visiting Texas, I was fortunate enough to catch Emma Swift, an Americana artist who hails from Australia, in concert on two consecutive evenings. Both nights, she charmed and entranced as the opening act for modern day psychedelic […]
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