Veteran singer Kenny Rogers tells me it may be time to call it quits on overseas tours – but not before a stint at Britain’s famed Glastonbury festival and a world music gig alongside Berber musicians in Morocco. Rogers, 74, reckons the […]
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About a quarter of the way through Neil Young’s concert at London’s 02 arena on Monday, he decided to visit the gates of Hades. As post apolcalyptic wind blew pieces of paper across the stage and lights flashed threateningly, he […]
One of the pleasures of being of a certain age is that you can literally rack up decades of seeing great musicians and attending gigs of all shapes and sizes. A recent BBC documentary about The Eagles jarred my memory […]
An Englishman and an Irishman meet on a train sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke. Actually it was the start of a band called Winter Mountain, an indie folk duo with more than a touch of Americana about […]
If Kat Edmonson ever becomes a household name, she can put it down not just to her talent as a jazz singer, but to some decidedly modern financing as well. The 29-year-old Texan, an old-school chanteuse with a contemporary lilt, […]
Word of mouth, tribute singers, car and cough syrup ads, and radio and film documentaries have already combined over time to turn the late Nick Drake from unheralded 1970s voice into 21st century music lore. Now a new CD of his songs […]
There are some nice harmonies and gentle singing on this little six-song EP which ranges from British folk rock to old-tyme U.S. country with seeming ease. Not really surprising given that its from Blair Dunlop and U.S. group Larkin Poe’s […]
There is no arguing the case that Joe Bonamassa is prolific. The blues guitarist promotes himself relentlessly, so a recent email hailing him as “beating ” B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughn initially elicited a sigh from me. But when […]
Talk about a cross-over album. “The Easy Winners” (Angel Records, 1975) was the work of Scott Joplin as interpreted by Andre Previn and Itzhak Perlman. The result was beautiful, a classic that probably should have got more attention than it […]
Stamp collecting, by many accounts, has fallen out of favour. Indeed, my attempts recently to sell an inherited collection suggest that a lot is not worth much. But for us music geeks, value is not everything, so stamps celebrating sounds […]
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