Doug Heselgrave

Talking with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival Part One July 15, 2011 Vancouver By Douglas Heselgrave Gillian Welch and David Rawlings on the Main Stage Photo by Sam Parton I had spent days trying to line up an interview with Gillian Welch and David

Catching up with Lukas Nelson A new conversation with Doug Heselgrave It’s official.  Lukas Nelson’s home is on the road.  After keeping an apartment in Venice, California for the last little while, Lukas realized that he was paying rent on a place that he almost never slept in,

An interview with Doug Heselgrave Daniel Lanois on his love of Jamaican music.  Are you ready for 'Oh Mercy' in dub? Want to start a fight in the music journalist’s bar? Bring up Daniel Lanois.  Love him or hate him, everyone has an opinion about the renowned

Obadiah Review by Douglas Heselgrave Oh, those early years of the twenty first century when Alt-country songs and the women who sang them stole our hearts! There was such a wealth of hurting progressive country tunes coming out around a decade ago that it was often easy to overlook what

King Sunny Ade – Baba Mo Tunde Review by Doug Heselgrave The artist once called ‘the Bob Marley of Africa’ shakes off his past, records a comeback and turns in one of the greatest ‘world music’ albums of the decade The music world owes an inestimable debt to artists like Nigeria’

Wingless Angels Volume One and Two Compiled and recorded by Keith Richards Review by Douglas Heselgrave Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards re-releases a timeless set of traditional nyabinghi songs and chants As an experiment, I’ve been playing the Wingless Angels CDs to everyone who stops by our house for