When I woke up this morning and read the news of Guy Clark’s passing, the feeling slowly imploded inside my emotions. I tried to say, “Guy Clark is gone,” out loud. I couldn’t get through even saying his first name. […]
When I woke up this morning and read the news of Guy Clark’s passing, the feeling slowly imploded inside my emotions. I tried to say, “Guy Clark is gone,” out loud. I couldn’t get through even saying his first name. […]
Make no mistake about it, song-poet veteran troubadour, Eric Andersen, is an international treasure. The concert at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California provided all who attended with an illustration of this truth. For over 50 years he has […]
This is the story of a great rock and roll-based musical collaboration. It features a soulful blend of bluesy, earth-shaking rock and roll, skillfully built by musical journeyman Jon Tiven, and a lyrical call to meaning, self-discovery, and inner peace, drawn from lyrics by veteran […]
For Nils Lofgren, over the last three decades of touring and recording from the highest of rock & roll peaks, with Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, the frequently asked question comes up, “What’s it like working with Springsteen?” Lofgren’s […]
2016 has begun as a year of passages witth a reminder of all things temporal especially the death of our culture heroes. It is a time for changes. For the iconic rock artist David Bowie and those who traveled along […]
“He’s a great force of nature. John sounds like a big train coming. He chops them all down.” — Tom Waits By the time he was 23, John Hammond Jr. had absorbed the country blues and associated himself with great […]
To understand and fully appreciate the music of Allen Toussaint, who passed away on November 10th at the age of 77, is to look deeply into the heart of the music of New Orleans during the last half of the […]
Barbed Wire, opens with a drumbeat like the pure sure-fired rhythm of a strong passionate heartbeat. Then, singer-songwriter, Sarah Pierce launches into a familiar tag line for the Americana musical landscape: ”I grew up living in a small town,” she […]
New single by Calico the band. A new country-rock version of the Joni Mitchell classic.
While musical elder-statesmen-turned-grandfather creating entertainment for their grandkids is not new, it is always a pleasure when the result is as fine and artistically imaginative as veteran folk singer, Arlo Guthrie’s new children’s book, Monsters. The book, meant for children and their […]
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