Steve Wosahla

It's been more than fifteen years since the late Jay Bennett left Wilco but his separation is still being discussed to this day--and some eight years since he died prematurely in his sleep. And now a new documentary Where are you, Jay Bennett? is being made about his

Does anybody know what time it is? Does anybody really care? Old songs tend to drift in and out of our sub-conscious at the most random of times. For some reason the old Chicago song came to mind as I was thinking about the turn of the calendar. Many a

By the time she appeared with Billy Joe Shaver at the Open Highway Festival in St. Louis, it seemed like a lifetime ago when Amanda Shires impulsively jumped onstage to play fiddle at one of  Shaver’s shows. Shaver hired the young Texan fiddler but saw something else in her.

“Ladies and gentlemen. Would you please give a warm welcome…. to Fleetwood Mac.” It was a line repeated nightly to introduce the world’s biggest band. It was more of a declaratory set of words than a question. There was a slight pause in the phrasing before the last three

The sounds of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” come streaming from everywhere this time of year. It’s my favorite Christmas song and in all of its Spectorian grandeur, it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Christmas never sounded so transcendent or bigger ever since. Somewhere in my basement

I will always remember sitting in the movie theater as a kid watching Leon Russell steal the show during The Concert For Bangladesh, wondering who and what this mystical force was. It was no small feat since he was a piano player on a stage that included George Harrison, Bob