Sparkling, Consistent & Potent Jonatha Brooke Collection -- Features Eric Bazilian
My first introduction to Massachusetts’ Jonatha Brooke was when she released two albums as a duo called The Story with her partner in crime and also a fine solo artist Jennifer Kimball (“Veering from the Wave”). The Story, I will admit, were two albums I picked out of a $1.
Bob and the Band at the Brickyards: Bringing It All Back Home
Bob Dylan first headed up the Hudson River to Ulster County, New York, almost 55 years ago. After Albert Grossman became his manager, in mid-1962, Dylan regularly skipped out of Manhattan to visit Grossman and his wife, Sally, in Bearsville. The sign on Route 212 in Bearsville says it was
Seattle's Skyboys--- The Lost Album
The Skyboys were about the best thing Seattle had going for it back in the late-seventies and early-eighties. I remember coming out of the record store I worked at on a rainy night and seeing lines around the block of people willing to brave the weather for a chance to
An Open Letter to Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters
I am sorry, Amanda, but we are just about done. I found you and The Honeycutters when you were struggling to become known. I loved writing about the best of the underdogs but underdog you are no more. Not only has the last year been good to you, it has
Searching for a Perfectly Good Guitar
The first time Pete Townshend smashed a guitar on stage, every guitarist not only cringed and got a little pissed off at Townshend for destroying an instrument that turned him into a great musician but also mourned the death of the music that would never more flow from that instrument.
Bluegrass Goes to College, But Should It?
Bluegrass is a musical genre that grew out of white working-class America. It embodies the values and concerns of the people who formed many of the strengths of work, family, and faith that have been features of the American experiment. The music has promoted itself as representing these key values.