Feast at the Cosmic Cowboy Cafe with Eddie White
For the second time in this column, I'm taking you to Sydney, Australia, to learn about Eddie White -- a veteran DJ who is the first person I've interviewed who's to bring up "Ameripolitan" music, which is a little less "whatever that
Thirty Years of Guitar Town, Steve Earle and The Dukes
On a high-temp Sunday in Manhattan, after a train ride on an excruciating slow-moving local that stopped at every single station, I took a 36-block stroll downtown with music in my head. It's not unusual to occasionally find Steve Earle walking the western grid between
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’
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
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