Paul Muldoon Goes Rogue
Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, formerly the Oxford Professor of Poetry, and also poetry editor of The New Yorker. Born in 1951 in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Muldoon lived for many years in Belfast, first as a student at Queen's University and then as a producer for
A Who's Who of Folk Music Celebrate the Appleseed Label's 21st Anniversary
Appleseed ranks among a handful of small record companies that put at least two things before profits: human values and musical quality. Those priorities come through loud and clear on Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches, a three-CD label sampler that contains 57 tracks.
Forty-eight of those selections have
The Night I Met Bob Marley
I was just cruisin' around today ... coffee and conversation with a friend, a trip to the car wash, gas, groceries, and a burger and fries at Five Guys. Typical stuff one does on one’s day off. I was listening mostly to tunes spanning three years from the BBC
An evening with George Frayne (AKA Commander Cody) at Threadgill's in Austin, Texas
Recently I wrote a piece on the Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen classic recording, From Deep in the Heart of Texas., recorded live at the Armadillo World Headquarters back in November of 1973. The article caught the eye of the folks at Blind Pig Records (www.blindpigrecords.com)
Buck Owens’ Previously Unreleased Final Capitol Album
Don Rich’s death in a 1974 motorcycle accident had a well-documented impact on Buck Owens. With his musical drive in neutral, his chart success declining and his Capitol contract expiring, Owens departed his longtime label, recorded a pair of albums for Warner Brothers and faded into a musical hiatus.
A Conversation With Lenny Kravitz At The Grammy Museum
I've been a fan of Lenny Kravitz since we used our fake i.d.'s to get in to see him at First Avenue in Minneapolis back in the day. It was freezing cold out, but about a zillion degrees inside that fabled club as everyone was