Why Cover Songs?: The Inspiration, Imitation, and Imagination Behind My New EP
Why cover songs? Earlier this year, Bob Dylan said, in his now famous MusiCares speech, “Big Bill Broonzy had a song called ‘Key to the Highway’… I sang that a lot. If you sing that a lot, you just might write [’Highway 61′]. You’d have written that too if
Old World Strings : Home By Anoushka Shankar
Review by Douglas Heselgrave
Some things can’t be written about without diminishing them. Anoushka Shankar’s newest CD of Indian classical music, ‘Home’ is like that. After listening to it over and over again for the past week as Vancouver continues to suffer through a grass crunching, dust inducing
Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown) on Eric Clapton and Jerry Lee Lewis
Names like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck quickly come to mind when discussing the greatest British rock and blues guitarists. Few venture forth the name Kim Simmonds – a Welshman who, night after night, rips off guitar licks that Otis Rush and B.B. King would be proud to
Musicians Against Childhood Cancer: A Festival and a Cause
This is the 16th year for Musicians Against Childhood Cancer to run at Hoover-Y Park in Lochbourne, OH. In 2000, Mandy Adkins died of an aggressive brain stem tumor at the age of 19, after treatment at St. Jude Children's Reasearch Hospital in Memphis, TN. Her parents, veteran
The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
No one seems to know who first uttered that famous line about how the Velvet Underground’s debut album sold only a few thousand copies but all to people who wound up starting bands. What is clear is that the statement contains at least a grain of truth. The Velvets
The Swearengens Album Release Party Packs The Tractor (Seattle, WA)
"If I'm sober enough to hold a pen, I'll write a review," I told Fredd Luongo, singer/songwriter for The Swearengens. I reflected on their previous whiskey-soaked shows just days before their their album release party at The Tractor Tavern. Some of our best