Generations Come Full Circle at Gram Parsons Birthday Bash (With Kai Clark Interview)
Funny how the circle turns around
You think your lost and then you're found again
Though you always look for what you know
Each time around it's something new again
-- Gene Clark, "Full Circle"
Gene Clark wrote those words forty-five years ago. His
Leon Russell's Shining Star
I will always remember sitting in the movie theater as a kid watching Leon Russell steal the show during The Concert For Bangladesh, wondering who and what this mystical force was. It was no small feat since he was a piano player on a stage that included George Harrison, Bob
Death of a Ladies' Man: Time Defies Leonard Cohen
There was that night when Phil Spector had a bottle of Manischewitz in one hand and a gun in the other. He put his arm around Leonard Cohen’s shoulder and leaned in, pointing the gun into his neck and said, “Leonard, I love you.”
Cohen, who had taken an
Oh, Shenandoah: Down the Valley with Bob Dylan in Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke is a beautiful small city cupped by the Blue Ridge Mountains, resting on the banks of the Roanoke River in the Roanoke Valley, which is at the southern tip of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. These places take their name from the Native American tribe living in what is
When is 36 live Bob Dylan CDs from 1966 not enough?
The new 36-CD box set, The 1966 Live Recordings, is an amazing journey back to an exciting time in music history. It follows many of the dates from Bob Dylan’s legendary, groundbreaking half-acoustic, half-electric tour of that year. (See my previous, more generalized review.) Dylan, backed
Best Ever? Bob Dylan Live in 1966
Many noteworthy events happened 50 years ago: France withdrew from NATO, India suffered its worst famine in 20 years, Medicare began in the USA and the Supreme Court decided the Miranda vs. Arizona case, which established rights for people accused of a crime.
The entertainment industry also had its share