joni ernst

Tribute albums can be tricky. Artists paying their respects to the subject of their veneration on the album find themselves confronted with a decision about how faithfully they should hew to the artist’s original versions of a song. If they do veer too far from the original, how will

On Thanksgiving Day in 1976, The Band, spent from years on the road and by then from internal disagreements about musical directions, mustered their considerable musicianship, as well as their huge coterie of musical friends and devoted fans, and came together for one last show, a dance of the spirit