Bob Moses

Like a garrulous old friend who's back in your life, full of tales to tell of life lived for better or worse, The Jayhawks, with all but one of the original members, returned after 15 years with a new record, Mockingbird Time. No news to readers of No

There's a warm welcome in the sound of acoustic guitars. Resonant, woody, and mellow like a fire in the grate after an autumn walk in the country, colored by the inflections of fingers and picks, strings and slides. So close to the timbre and range of the voice

It's now a commonplace that geography is destiny. If stolid mountains and excitable weather can mock mere politics and war, then surely they can imbue a man with an interior geography, a sense of his own purpose and place. E.C. Ball was a man of a particular

The journey of Clarence White and his brothers offers a useful corrective for those inclined to consider bluegrass, if they consider it at all, as the province of rustics on an Appalachian porch, fiddling next to a jar of flammable liquid. Clarence and Roland White, singly and together, pulled the

I promised video interviews with Jenni Muldaur when I posted the night after her record release, and they are now at Smoke, along with a song from the record, James Brown's "Lost Someone." If you’re a singer’s singer, someone others turn to for vocal

Lou Reed, Jenni Muldaur and David Byrne outside NYC's The Living Room at the release party for her new album Dearest Darlin'. Photo by Stephen Clemmer. Last night at The Living Room on New York's Lower East Side, Jenni Muldaur debuted her new record, and