Cascada de Flores' Golden Heart
It's hard to overstate the excellence of Cascada de Flores. The six-piece band, led by Arwen Lawrence (voice, dance, guitar) and Jorge Liceaga (voice, lead guitar, acting) pay homage to Latin American radio in an act that combines impeccable musicality, theater and the utmost respect for Mexican
Wayne Berry, Nashville Cat: Home At Last
It was 1970 and I was incarcerated in military hell, or what I perceived as such, when I happened upon a thumbnail review of Timber's Part of What You Hear album in a copy of either Stereo Review or High Fidelity magazine. Very short, it praised the band
You, Your Sister, and a Classic Album
I was there – in Gainesville, Florida, during hometown band the Vulgar Boatmen’s late 80s / early 90s heyday. The band, with two leaders (Robert Ray and Dale Lawrence) located in different parts of the country (Ray a professor at the University of Florida), were the cutting edge of college rock,
Thirty Years With Lucinda Williams
In the mid-1980s I became immersed in the world of jazz and cabaret -- there were a load of clubs, cafes, and piano bars liberally strewn throughout New York. Within just a ten-minute walk from where I was living in Hell’s Kitchen, there was at least one such
David Bowie Outside the Circle: The Singer-Songwriter Years 1967-1973
2016 has begun as a year of passages witth a reminder of all things temporal especially the death of our culture heroes. It is a time for changes.
For the iconic rock artist David Bowie and those who traveled along on his musical ride over the last 49 years, the
David Bowie, New Yorker
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, David Robert Jones was born to Peggy and John Jones in Brixton, southwest London. He was an imaginative child, by reports, and had musical aspirations as well as talent early on. His cousin Kristina Amadeus recently wrote, in a letter to