Antje Duvekot Has a Lot Of Living — And Giving — To Do
If life begins at 40,Antje Duvekotalready has experienced a false start. And that's just fine with her.
The Boston-based singer-songwriter, who is preparing to teach next week at the Song School in Lyons, Colorado, then perform at the Aug. 15-17 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, is trying to
In Appreciation of: Eric Clapton
Last month, Eric Clapton suggested that his days of touring are over. “The road has become unbearable,” he said. “It's become unapproachable, because it takes so long to get anywhere. It's hostile – everywhere: getting in and out of airports, traveling on planes and in cars.”
Understandable,
What Happens When a Band Learns its Name was an Obscure Racial Epithet? Meet Parsonsfield.
For Poor Old Shine, it started with a song… a traditional prison work song of the American South, called “Ain’t No Cane on This Brazos.” It’s been interpreted by everyone from Dylan and the Band, to the Low Anthem, Lyle Lovett and the Wood Brothers. And it was
Chris Isaak's Life Beyond the Sun
In 2011, Chris Isaak took the long overdue step of recording an album at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tenn. It wasn't just any album, it was faithful interpretations of classic songs by his musical mentors and heroes: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. It
Waylon, John Prine, Kinky, Gram Parsons ... Come Together
Preface: This began as a foreword for a small collection of pictures and articles I am assembling for a book I plan to self-publish. As the memories piled on, the words accumulated into a short memoir and loose chronology of what happened in my life and on paper between 1967
Chris O’Connell - Be Right Back
The art of feeling a song’s essence -- color, range, control, and style -- and giving it all to you is the domain of the great jazz singers, like Betty Carter, Abbey Lincoln, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan; and the great pop singers, like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Stevie Nicks,