Rare Vinyl Finds from Québec
Each year for the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to be invited out to Montréal for the festival La Grande Rencontre. When I was a kid, I visited Montréal a few times to visit my grandmother Colombe Leblanc, and those are some of my best memories. A
Land Of A Thousand Bridges: Island Girl In A Rock & Roll World
Where to begin?
Probably the classic "once upon a time" would be a good place to open what's going to be a long look at one of the most extraordinary autobiographies I've ever come across. There are so many moments, so many starting places,
For Poco Bassist Jack Sundrud, It Started with the Beatles
A lot of music has influenced long-time Poco bass player Jack Sundrud, but he says seeing the Beatles at age 15 “was the experience that set the hook of music in my soul."
Sundrud’s memorable day — Aug. 21, 1965 — began in his small northwestern Minnesota hometown, Oklee, which
Country, Women, and the LGBTQ Community
Let's talk about country music. Let's talk about its place in our lives, whether you grew up with it or, like me, have almost no knowledge off he genre itself and like to lurk on the outskirts. Let's talk about the people who are
Review: On The Cutting Edge With Bob Dylan. How Does It Feel? So Very Good.
“We had a lot of swinging cats … real hip musicians, not just some cats I picked up off the street, and we all got together and we just had a ball.” -- Bob Dylan on the recording of Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
On November 6, the latest installment
Ray-Bans, Music, and Popular Culture: Bob Dylan and Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who
On Halloween eve, the BBC posted a new promotional photo of the current Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi, wearing the Ray-Ban Wayfarers that have become not just an iconic, but a crucially sonic, part of his persona as the Twelfth (or so) Doctor.
It struck me just how much Capaldi'