A Conversation with Gregg Allman
Gregg Allman, founding member of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, is a gifted blues musician. Allman’s soulful, distinctive voice is as much a part of the American musical landscape as Hendrix’ guitar work or Bob Dylan’s poetic lyrics.
Allman, a 1995 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee,
Martin Barre (Jethro Tull) Credits McCartney, the Nightriders
Martin Barre wants to bring audiences back to the lively concerts of decades ago on his current U.S. spring tour.
“I want to play gigs like they were in the early ’70s and ’80s — full of of energy and full of music,” says the long-time Jethro Tull guitarist
Allen Toussaint on Vinyl - "New" From 1975
It does not sit well with a part of me that Record Store Day (which in Britain was on April 16) brings with it new vinyl that could be seen as exploitative. This year, for example, brought no less that three David Bowie offerings. In a similar vein, RSD 2016
Tedeschi Trucks Articulates Their Full Voice and Vision on "Let Me Get By"
The Tedeschi Trucks Band's vision of collective aspiration and individual empowerment permeates their stirring new album, Let Me Get By.
Susan Tedeschi’s soul-stirring voice soars and dips more majestically than ever, on an eagle’s wing. Listen to “Anyhow.” It’s a broken heart with tenacious
The Lumineers' Roving American Literature
The Lumineers write songs with pores, songs that age, and songs can sustain meaning—or diversify meaning—over the course of years.
Over the course of four years, to be precise.
Proof of that exists on the band's rustic, self-titled debut, which, save for a few rogue
Merle Haggard and Other Legends
Legends. It's been a week of legends. Another legend passing, while the stories of three legends -- Hank Williams, Miles Davis, and Chet Baker -- grace the silver screen. Through each, we see what we want to see, feel what we want to feel, and become what we want to