Garry Tallent doesn’t want anybody to take his new record too seriously. It’s just a fun record, he says, of his debut album Break Time. “Everything on this sounds pre-1959,” he was telling Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale on a […]
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It took a long time and a trip out to sea for Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams to finally sit down and have a chat. But being on the first annual Outlaw Country Cruise aboard the Norwegian Pearl, Earle and […]
On a Saturday night at the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival, the Logan Theater feels like it’s not showing a screening as much as hosting a film premiere. The official “world premiere” of Who Is Lydia Loveless? took place […]
David Bromberg had had enough. The only problem was he didn’t know it. Being on the road for two years without going home for two weeks straight was taking its toll. Bromberg can now look back and realize he was […]
The first time the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band stepped foot onstage at the Ryman, the “Mother Church of Country Music,” there were many other people playing alongside them. And as Jimmie Fadden prepared for the band’s fiftieth anniversary concert, he could […]
Long before Star Wars there was Blows Against The Empire. “Have you seen the stars?” asked Paul Kantner unassumingly and invitingly in his first solo album and epic. “Have you looked at all the galaxy of stars?” “Have You Seen […]
“Lindi is my compass,” a woman was telling me at Gypsy Sally’s in Washington, DC, a few minutes after the singer’s set ended. “I always come back to her when things get difficult.” Before she could tell me more, she […]
In the end, the subject was about time and how time slips away. That realization was voiced by Bruce Springsteen two hours into his concert at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, after he and the E Street band played the entire […]
On a weeknight at Gypsy Sally’s in Washington, D.C. the duo known as Smooth Hound Smith might have been in the club to provide more than just entertainment as Lindi Ortega’s opening act. In addition to delivering gorgeous harmonies and […]
Carly Simon might have been guided by the clouds in her coffee but David Bowie had mammoth moonage daydreams. There was something larger than life, other or outer-worldly about Bowie, who transformed folk songs originally made under his birth name Davy […]
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