Twelve, that’s the number of times that I’ve seen the Drive-By Truckers in the last seven years, including three rock shows in 2011. What’s to explain an old guy’s devotion to a hard-touring guitar band with a catalogue of hard-time rock […]
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By John Milward Determining who wrote a traditional blues song can be akin to casting a fishing line into very muddy waters. That’s because in the early decades of the last century, blues was an oral tradition, with songs […]
Songs that become standards are like a rorschach test for a musician, and while working on my book Crossroads, which will focus on the interactions between the genres of blues and rock, it’s been both fun and instructive to listen […]
Today’s (March 15th) the birthday of both Lightnin’ Hopkins and Ry Cooder, two great musicians who are central to the story of the blues and the blues revival. Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins was born in Centerville, Texas in 1912, […]
By John Milward Concerts are a guaranteed good date, unless, perhaps, you’re of a certain age. That didn’t occur to me six months ago when a few minutes after they went on sale, I bought tickets to see My Morning […]
by John Milward I attended a recent Peter Wolf concert in Albany, but this is not a concert review. I did plenty of those during decades of work as a full-time rock critic, years that left me hopelessly spoiled with […]
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