Kaia Kater: "I Was Shy About My Love For That Instrument.”
The music of roots artist Kaia Kater boasts numerous layers that glue it together. There’s the integral part that folk music played on the young Kater as she grew up. There was the music her father would send, helping to forge her tastes and her interests. The music camps
Kris Kristofferson at the Belly Up (Solana Beach, CA - Jan. 15, 2018)
Kris Kristofferson takes a final pull from a bottle of beer and tosses it at the trash. It misses. The glass bottle hits the concrete floor with an echo loud enough to turn heads, but it doesn’t break.
He shrugs, “It was empty,” he says.
Waiting to take the
Questlove Delves into the Creative Process
We’ve all read a novel or a poem, studied a work of art, or listened to a song and asked ourselves what the creative process of the author or artist or musician must be like. How does a songwriter start a song? How was she inspired to write the
In Providence, Bob Dylan transcends both space and time, does it his way
Note: This article was orignally posted on examiner.com on November 18, 2014. Since that website no longer exists, I'm reposting it here. Copyright 2014 by Harold Lepidus. Reposted by permission.
On Thursday afternoon, I was fortunate enough to attend musician Robyn Hitchcock’s talk and performance at
Veteran Finger-Picking/Singer-Songwriter with Traditional Edge Connects with Originals
This one has lingered on my desk for a few months but I noticed that I tagged it as something worth talking about. Like some earlier artists who are a little too traditional in folk for me or Liberal, I often come across artists who transcend the roots’-old styles
Richmond Fontaine: In Their Own Words - A Reminder Of What We're Missing.
In his novel The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene held that “A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
In 2016 Willy Vlautin announced the end of the chapter for Richmond Fontaine.