Ray Wylie Hubbard's Memoir Has No Quit in It
I’m not the biggest fan of Ray Wylie Hubbard’s music. I mean, I’m a fan, just not the biggest. Therefore, when I tell you that his economical, cleverly structured memoir, A Life...Well, Lived (Bordello Records, 174 pages, with Thom Jurek editing), is among the most compelling
Runs in the Family
On "Far Away" – the first song on her self-titled 2005 debut – Martha Wainwright sings:
I have no children
I have no husband
I have no reason to be alive
Now, a decade later, Wainwright is a mother of two. Arcangelo (or Arc, as he’s often known) is
Kendrick Lamar: Persona & Beyond
I’ve been listening to Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly since it came out earlier this year. After playing the CD three or four more times last week, I’m certain that this release will be somewhere in my top three for the year, and felt compelled to
Ironing Board Sam Renaissance: Interview with Tim Duffy of Music Maker Relief Foundation
The blues are no joke. That’s what eclectic-soul singer Ironing Board Sam found at the end of his rope, nearly broke and burned out after a lifetime spent running around the edges of the music industry track.
He’d lived in Nashville and Memphis, cut singles for major labels
A Joyously Militant Celebration of Joe Hill With Tom Morello and Friends
Today is the 100th anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, labor radical and forefather of all American protest music. Hill was honored and celebrated on Tuesday night with a truly incredible, beyond sold out show put on by Tom Morello and his friends to carry on the rabble rousing
Townes Van Zandt At The Ash Grove 1996
Back in the summer of 1996, I had the good fortune of booking Townes Van Zandt for one of his last performances in the United States. Earlier in the year, Ed Pearl, the founder of the Ash Grove, the legendary roots music venue in Los Angeles, had asked me to