Brighter than Sunshine: Jim Yester on The Association's Past and Future
Jim Yester remembers his band, the Association, playing before a crowd that could fill up the Rose Bowl, but it’s the small venues he likes best.
“The largest crowd the Association played before was probably the Wisconsin State Fair,” he says. “I don't remember what year, but
Hey, Mike Scott and The Waterboys: How Does It Feel?
In my younger and more vulnerable years, back in Boston in October of 1989, I scored a right and left cross of The Waterboys and Bob Dylan. On a Sunday night in October, with the leaves turning on the Common and cold in the air, I heard The Waterboys live
A retrospective look at the debut recording from The Blue Shadows
“On The Floor Of Heaven” was the debut album from the band “The Blue Shadows”, a quartet that hailed from Vancouver, Canada. All of the tracks were recorded in Vancouver during March of 1993, except for two that were recorded earlier in July of 1992. The future for the group
New Riders of The Purple Sage: Americana Lost and Found
John Collins Dawson IV, nicknamed both Marmaduke and McDuke, was only 64 when he died peacefully in Mexico eight years ago. Growing weary of life on the road as a professional musician, he retired in 1997 and had moved to San Miguel de Allende with his wife. Dawson, a singer,
Jay Bennett, Gone, But Not Forgotten
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
Tom Russell's Latest Might Be His Best
I’ve been a Tom Russell fan since 1975, when he sent me a copy of Ring of Bone, his superb duet album with Patricia Hardin. “Why hasn’t everybody heard of this guy?” I wondered. More than 40 years later, I’m still asking myself that question.
Over the