Dreaming Our Dreams of Dylan
In what is likely Shakespeare’s final play, The Tempest, Prospero, the great magician who has controlled much of the play’s action, reminds us of the razor-thin line between our waking life and our sleeping life: “We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life
Donna The Buffalo Offers Something for the “Herd”
We have all seen it – that recurring moment in mainstream Hollywood movies when the main character goes into a redneck/country bar to browbeat the bartender into telling where someone can be found. In the background is a band playing music. It is frustrating for music lovers because the band
The Cold Stares – Mountain (LP)
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You don’t need a lot of crazy, overindulgent solos to make a good guitar record in 2018, and The Cold Stares’ Chris Tapp proves as much in the band’s new album Mountain. The record’s opening set includes the stop-start alternative rocker “The
Martin Stephenson & the Daintees at The Black Box (Belfast, Ireland - Jan. 9, 2015)
I was a late-comer to Martin Stephenson and the Daintees. I tuned in during the early ‘90s to classics that had been written in the previous decade. They were a very specific mix of political and spiritual, literary and realist. They were a mix of folk, and pop, and punk,
Bob Dylan’s "More Blood, More Tracks": A First Listen
This is the one you’ve been waiting for.
Bob Dylan’s “Official Bootleg Series” began in 1991, with Volumes 1-3: Rare & Unreleased 1961-1991. However, Biograph (1985) always felt like the first official bootleg to me. These Dylan albums have the significant distinction of being the first compiled box
How to Paint a Masterpiece: Bob Dylan's "More Blood, More Tracks"
More Blood, More Tracks is a six CD box set of every surviving recording from the 1974 Blood on the Tracks sessions, four in New York, two in Minnesota.
First of all, before listening to it, put aside the fact that they've split up.
It’s a distraction.