The Circle Will Not Be Broken: Newport Folk Festival 2016
“Somebody’s gotta do it,” says Jay Sweet, producer of the Newport Folk Festival, when I ask what inspired him to take up the charge of keeping the long-running festival alive and relevant. “I felt like it was the granddaddy of all music festivals. It’s the original. It’s
Hi-Fi Infidelity: “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
My brother and I sat on the front stoop, with impressively out-of-tune plastic guitars in our hands. With sibling harmony decades removed from the Louvins, we proudly proclaimed, in front of god and everybody, things we couldn’t possibly have understood.
I was six, he was nine. The song we
Jon Anderson of Yes on Springsteen, Nina Simone, and More
From the moment they met, Jon Anderson knew a musical collaboration with Roine Stolt would work.
“When we first met two years ago, I knew we would speak the same musical language,” the renowned former Yes lead singer tells me from his northern California studio. “There is something in a
Larry Young’s oceanic organ resurfaces after 38 years
This two-CD set represents the first recordings in nearly 38 years by the late, pioneering organist who played on Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew, Carlos Santana's Love, Devotion and Surrender, and John McLaughlin's Devotion and in the ground-breaking jazz-fusion group The Tony Williams Lifetime. These recordings
“My Thanks, My Tears” – In Honor and Memory of Bill Schaefgen
The duende “pierced her with a dart … for having stolen his deepest secret, the subtle bridge that unites the five senses with the raw wound, that living cloud, a stormy ocean of Love freed from Time.” -- Federico Garcia Lorca from “Play and the Theory of Duende.” (for Lee Brady)
Eric Andersen & Scarlet Rivera Remember The Rolling Thunder Revue
When singer-songwriter, Eric Andersen, and violinist, Scarlett Rivera play Weber Music Hall in Duluth, Minnesota Saturday night, July 23rd, to benefit the redevelopment of the historic Duluth Armory Building, there is one unifying individual whose spirit brings the three elements together; Bob Dylan. Andersen and Scarlett Rivera were part of