Tony Joe White's Swampy Legacy
He was the voice of the swamp people, his folksy, humorous accounts of the antics of his downhome neighbors in rural Louisiana providing him with a songwriting career that persuaded Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Brook Benton, Waylon Jennings, Ray Charles, and Tina Turner to cover his songs. Tony Joe White
David Crosby Still Trying to Get Back to the Garden
For people of a certain age, the highlight of David Crosby’s latest album Here If You Listen is a new rendition of “Woodstock.” Yes, that Woodstock — the 1969 one where a 28-year old Crosby was “scared shitless” along with his buddies Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young.
Now
Town Mountain Channels Old & In The Way
The more I listened to Town Mountain’s release New Freedom Blues for this review, the more I was dragged back to the 1970s and car journeys across America listening to Old & In The Way. That is no bad thing – for me, for you, or for what Town Mountain,
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