Chapter Two: Legacy versus Legend On a bluff overlooking a bend in the St. Johns River, boys in short-sleeved shirts and ties mingle with attractive girls in summer outfits, pausing from intellectual pursuits to watch planes landing in the distance […]
The government of Richard Nixon spent many years, blew bushels of money, installed tons of surveillance equipment, and employed dozens of CIA and FBI men in its efforts to deport America-loving peacenik John Lennon, who they considered a major threat […]
Marco Benevento is one of the premier jazz pianists improvising in a rock context today. He is a bandleader in his own trio Marco Benevento, came to prominence through his Duo (Marco Benevento and Joe Russo), also touring as a […]
Somewhere on a two lane state road where speed limits are a suggestion, about 150 miles from Phoenix and 300 miles from Albuquerque, “We’re Alright Now,” the leadoff track to John Hiatt’s 23rd album, Mystic Pinball, is blasting through my […]
Rob Young’s book Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music, started life looking at the increasing popularity and electrification of folk music during the late 1960s and early 1970s. But as he delved further back into the inspiration behind acts such […]
Its been 18 years since the last Shoes studio album, an extraordinarily long time in the world of Rock, although hardly more than a nano-second in the career of a band whose career spans nearly 40 years. This is Shoes […]
You’ll probably have heard and read a lot by now about Bruce having the plug pulled on him in London, while he was jamming with Macca. Of course it was stupid and irritating if, like me, you’d been there all […]
I have some to serve. Early this Spring beloved drummer for the Toxic Shocks past away, John Boland. Friends have organized a benefit. Leading the way to perform is Bowling Green, KY’s Government Cheese, along with East Nashville’s Ned Van […]
There was a time when some people wrote song and some people sang songs. The two rarely mixed. In that era of Tin Pan Alley and the songwriting mills, Curtis Stigers would have been a demi god. As he displays […]
John Hiatt has no equal, at least to my ears, but M. William Helfrich is definitely on the path to becoming one of the next great Americana artists. The Portland, Oregon based folk-rock songwriter known as mbilly will self-release “Malheu” […]
