Allie Farris has been and will be a very busy festival performer this year. She’s hopping all over the country with appearances in Texas, Colorado and New York. As one critic says, Allie’s vocals are a “tour de force” and […]
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Zak Smith is from New Jersey and proud of it. There’s an incredibly large musical legacy in that state and Zak works hard at maintaining his place within it. As one music critic pointed out, “Zak Smith proves his worth […]
Last year when I saw Bruce Springsteen play Wembley Stadium he finished the night with a solo acoustic Thunder Road and I closed my review by saying “I would be thrilled to bits if that next time was a solo […]
I hate large stadium arenas but I adore Bruce Springsteen. I’m with the purists who argue that shows in such venues are much less satisfying than in smaller, intimate venues but, but, but….Springsteen is one of those artists who make […]
Q- What songwriters do you admire most and why? A- Ever go to a songwriter round at The Bluebird? It’s a thing of beauty when the four songwriters start responding to each other in song. There is a subtle competition […]
When the wind started blowing on Sunday night and the rain started to come down on Monday, it really didn’t seem like much to me. I recall thinking I’ve been in thunderstorms that packed more of a punch, and certainly […]
It’s been ten years since I first saw Jimmy LaFave perform live, it was at the Newport Folk Festival where he presented the ‘Ribbon of Highway, Endless Skyway’ tribute to Woody Guthrie as well as performing his own set on […]
If the title of this blog sounds a little salacious, get thy head out of the gutter and know that mom is ninety years old and the only Boss she has ever known was her supervisor at the Philadelphia Board […]
It seems that every day some musician dies. In fact, my old pal Vince has a web site devoted to daily postings of the newly departed, and he posts today’s fresh deaths along with those who also died in years […]
So I’m sitting here listening to The Promise which comes out on November 16. It’s the twenty-one “lost” Springsteen tracks he recorded during the Darkness On The Edge of Town sessions that never saw the light of day on a […]
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