I have been reviewing Maurice Tani cd’s for the past three years. Maurice was brought to my attention by his publicist Tanya Pinkerton who had read a few of my reviews in No Depression. I was immediately impressed with Maurice […]
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I met Maurice Tani at a downtown Berkeley coffee shop to discuss his new collection of songs, The White Water. We immediately launched into a discussion of the astounding number of recent musician deaths and particularly the loss of Merle […]
“What made rockabilly such a drastically new music was its spirit, a thing that bordered on mania. Elvis’s ‘Good Rockin’ Tonight’ was not merely a party song, but an invitation to a holocaust….Country music in recent years had not known such […]
There’s been a lot written lately about the “demise” of the music industry. PopMatters featured an editorial about what they refer to as the 1% -2% number. That’s the number of music customers who visit iTunes and actually purchase the […]
Daniel Castro was fifteen years old when his brother Mario died. His passion remained the blues even though by the time he entered high school anybody interested in being in a band was into rock. On Tom Mazzolini’s Blues by […]
I had been working on a story about the Warren Hellman Museum and the music from the Great Recession when I was approached a few weeks ago by my friend David Perper to come see his new band, The Daniel […]
I have been working on a story about the Warren Hellman Museum and the music from the Great Recession when I was approached a few weeks ago by my friend David Perper to come see his new band, The Daniel […]
The saga of the Alvin Brothers has been legendary. I recall one reunion (if I recall correctly, the first Blasters reunion after a ten year hiatus) at Slims. The room was packed to beyond fire safety levels. Sweat coming down […]
When my wife and I arrived at the Great American Music Hall Friday night on October 5th, I should have read more into the marquee. It read “Nick Lowe + The Super Friends of Jesse Winchester.” The line waiting to […]
I’ve been watching with interest as Dawn Holliday and her crew pieced together the lineup for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2012 after the loss of Warren Hellman, the event’s inspiration, last year. The Hardly Strictly Facebook page posted four weeks of […]
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