Dr. John has been playing New Orleans jazz, blues, voodoo rock, what have you, since the late 1950s. Now, at the age of 74, he reckons it is touch-and-go whether that special Big Easy culture and sound he so loves […]
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Manitas de Plata, the gypsy/flamenco guitar virtuoso who died last week, was the first celebrity musician I met face to face. I was reminded of this – ironically – about two weeks ago, when I was on holiday in Jordan […]
Whether it is flamenco in Madrid, old-time fiddle in Virginia or even a bit of Austro-Bavarian jodeln in Munich, travel is so much better if you explore the roots music of wherever you are. Thus it was a delight when I went to Istanbul recently […]
Truth be told, it will take a pretty strong fan of Jimmy Page and his erstwhile band Led Zeppelin to buy the celebrated rock guitarist’s new book. Weighing in at just shy of 3 kg (more than six and a […]
You can find music anywhere. So how about beer being pumped from an old saxophone in Istanbul. Magic.
Pink Floyd has announced its first new studio album in 20 years will be released on November 11 – an event that has some people very excited. The Endless River is a tribute to Rick Wright, the band’s keyboardist who died in […]
You can’t get much more New Orleans than Dr John and Louis Armstrong – so an album of the first playing the latter is something to get excited about. “Ske-Dat-De-Dat … Spirit Of Satch” promises a lot and for the […]
There’s probably a bit of intentional irony in Richard Thompson’s latest offering: a year after Electric, he gives us Acoustic Classics. If the British balladeer is trying to say “I can do anything”, he is pretty successful. Acoustic is a […]
When veteran California rock band the Eagles hit the stage in London on June 21, there was no pretence about why people had come to see them or what the band was expected to do. It was a case of play […]
As per tradition – that is, I did it last year – it is time for me to look back on the best music experiences I had over the past year. They are not in any “best” order, except for […]
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