A Sendoff for Crocker
I started off trying to write this just as soon as I heard of the news. I then found myself having to stop writing and take a break. Something told me to go outside and sit on the swing and breathe in that frosty Carolina air while admiring the stars
Bruce Cockburn - Rumours of Glory (Book & Album Review)
“None of us,” Bruce Cockburn writes near the end of his newly released autobiography, Rumours of Glory, “has the capacity to stand far enough back from the picture to see how the parts of our lives intersect. We’re all tiny figures in the jigsaw flux."
In music circles,
You Say You Wanna Play Country But You're in a Punk Rock Band: 20 Years of Bloodshot
I recently had the good fortune of being present for a small, intimate performance and interview with former X frontman John Doe. Amongst the many great questions put to him by a local radio DJ was one that I myself have wanted to ask a good number of former punk
Best of 2014: Sturgill Simpson - "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music"
When No Depression launched as a print magazine in 1995, its positioning as an alternative-country quarterly was intended to be squarely in contrast to the dominant acts on mainstream country radio at the time. The magazine championed the organic sounds of Uncle Tupelo and the Jayhawks while the likes of
Arabic Jazz Artists and their Contributions in Arabic Jazz Fusion
In late 2008, the Kuwaiti born musician Kamal Musallam and his band performed at the Oriental Jazz event in Abu Dhabi alongside noted musician Volker Schlott. At the event, Schlott played alto-saxophone and Musallam switched between electric guitar and oud.
After the event Musallam, pictured here, recounted his experience. He
Broadway Bob: Dylan at the Beacon Theatre, New York, 2014
The Beacon Theatre is one of my favorite music venues in New York City. Opened just after the Crash of 1929, the Beacon is a wonder of fantastical Manhattan Modernism, its golden interior with gigantic Greek goddesses, and murals redolent of Arabian nights, still sounding with echoes of the Jazz