I was there – in Gainesville, Florida, during hometown band the Vulgar Boatmen’s late 80s / early 90s heyday. The band, with two leaders (Robert Ray and Dale Lawrence) located in different parts of the country (Ray a professor at […]
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Imagine, if you will, a chilly, overcast day in London, circa 1962. A young folksinger and guitarist named John Renbourn walks down the street, guitar case in hand, on his way to do a show at a neighborhood folk club. […]
In recent years there has been a glut of new guitarists influenced by the “American Primitive”, or “Guitar Soli” style of guitar playing. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, as the bulk of that style was and is brilliant music. […]
Cycle finds veteran Florida folk-popsters (pop-folksters?) Steve Robinson and Ed Woltil teaming up for a collection of songs that’s a high water mark in each of their careers. In a music world full of self-conscious irony and angst (lots of […]
On Under Cold Blue Stars, Josh Rouse’s third album, he became a truly accomplished songwriter – the kind who helps us see in the dark, illuminating the hidden corners of everyday life, and of the psyche. As the old cliché says, time flies. […]
Tompkins Square’s Imaginational Anthem series has become a standard for presenting solo instrumental acoustic guitar music in the “American Primitive”, or “Guitar Soli” style. Since the first volume 10 years ago, the series has included new artists as well as […]
Years ago someone gave me a copy, originally taped from a radio broadcast, of a 1975 Jackson Browne show from The Main Point in Bryn Mawr, PA. It’s a loose, spirited performance full of interaction with the crowd, some interesting […]
I first became aware of River Crombie through a YouTube video where he covered John Martyn’s 1967 track “Ballad of an Elder Woman”. This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill cover performed by some guy down the street in his living room. This […]
Even though the calendar says autumn, Florida is still hot in late September. The sun-bleached shores haven’t succumbed to the cooler temperatures of the season yet. California’s Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers are rolling through the sunshine state on a […]
As Billy Childs, the man behind Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro, says in the album’s liner notes, Laura Nyro’s music is “first and foremost, American music: a stylistic melting pot, just as America is a kaleidoscope of cultures, […]
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