Rose Cousins Comes To A Perfect Conclusion
Musically, my 2017 has started the way that last year ended.
Beguiled by a golden voice.
In this case, the sumptuous vocals belong to, one, Rose Cousins.
She's Canadian. A native of Prince Edward Island who now lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Natural Conclusion will be in fact
Bob Dylan and Bluegrass
Bob Dylan has been a part of the American musical consciousness since the early 1960s. In other words, a man now three-quarters of a century old has fascinated, irritated, entertained, intrigued, and inspired Americans for more than half a century. Through dozens of records, this man, who refers to
Delbert's Prickly Jazz
In 1954, when he was about 14, Delbert McClinton was walloped by a celestial dose of the blues. After a day of hunting in the woods of his native Fort Worth, Texas, McClinton heard a joyful noise wafting through the trees. “There was this bar-b-que joint, a black
Just A Spoonful of John Sebastian
At about ten after ten on Christmas Eve, I was sitting on the couch across from my oldest son, each of us engrossed in our own digital universes. Mindlessly killing time by scrolling through Facebook on my phone, an image posted by Woodstock-based musician Happy Traum caught my eye.
Bluegrass Stereotypes: Where Are We?
In 1983, eminent bluegrass historian Neil V. Rosenberg wrote a piece in the scholarly journal American Music, published by the University of Illinois Press, about bluegrass stereotypes found in popular media of the time. He wrote about three offerings found on television and film in the summary available to me.
Goodbye J.C.: Fleetwood Mac Loses One of Its Own
“Ladies and gentlemen. Would you please give a warm welcome…. to Fleetwood Mac.”
It was a line repeated nightly to introduce the world’s biggest band. It was more of a declaratory set of words than a question. There was a slight pause in the phrasing before the last three