Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, Travelin’ Thru Tennessee
The latest installment of Bob Dylan’s official bootleg series, out Nov. 1 on Columbia Records, is a generous grab-bag of four separate moments from the past. Its three discs feature new songs you’ve never heard, new versions of decades-old favorites, and cleaned-up tracks from the long-underground and only
Lankum’s 'The Livelong Day' Challenges the Confines of Traditional Music
Despite a penchant for song collection and resurrection and instrumentation that references the rich culture of their island nation, Irish four piece Lankum is not a traditional band. Based in Dublin and comprised of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada, and Radie Peat, Lankum creates moody songs that simultaneously
Kinky Friedman Rises Again
When you've been a part of Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue; partied with John Belushi; hung out with Iggy Pop; hosted parties that attracted Jack Nicholson, Joni Mitchell, Dylan, and hundreds more; written north of 30 books; not to mention run for agriculture commissioner and governor
Five Generations of Carters Celebrate The Carter Family’s Songs and Sound
It's as advertised, a tribute to the original three members of The Carter Family delivered by a family tree full of Carters, spanning five generations of the first family of roots music's legacy. Scrolling through the list of family contributors is like wading through the begats
THE READING ROOM: New Janis Joplin Biography Brings the Focus Back to the Music
In June 1967, a young singer and her band took the stage at the Monterey Pop Festival. It was Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company’s first large-scale public performance, but her performances riveted the crowd and introduced to the world a blues singer who pulled every
Box Set Traces Evolution of the Bakersfield Sound
Buck Owens and Merle Haggard are the poster boys for the unique sound of their hometown, but wagonloads of musical pioneers were churning up the Bakersfield, California, dust before them two good ol’ boys rode out of town toward brighter lights.
For The Bakersfield Sound, 1940-1974, Bear Family Records has