Boston Venues: Five Best, Five Worst, and Five Worth the Roadtrip
By Joel Barrett
Sweet music, sweet spots
For lovers of live music — rock, folk, or jazz, and everything in between — the Boston area really is the promised land. There are more concerts in one week in northeastern Massachusetts than most areas of the country have in a whole year. We
50 Years of Song: Peter Yarrow Is Going Strong
By Joel Barrett
Some fans may consider him the “first name” in folk music. That may be debatable, but he is definitely the first name of the iconic folk group Peter, Paul and Mary -- the trio that carried a generation through the civil rights struggle, Vietnam, and the birth of
Marti Jones - You're Not the Bossa Me
When I first met Marti Jones, several years ago, I had the temerity to tell her that I came know her husband Don Dixon through her, not the other way around. And, like the unabashed fan that I was, I brought my favorite LP for her to autograph.
I have
The Case for Kinky Friedman
It has been said if Kinky Friedman didn’t exist, someone would have to invent him. I’m just not sure who – other than The Kinkster himself – is capable.
Richard “Kinky” Friedman, who turns 70 November 1, is a man who has worn a lot of ten-gallon hats in
Sturgill Simpson: "Turtles All the Way Down" on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
Last night, Sturgill Simpson performed his trad-country, psychedelic-tinged song about chemical enlightenment. As always, the man and his fantastic band, nailed it.
With appearances on David Letterman and Conan, it's becomes a of late night talk show gauntlet by the reluctant savior of country music. It
New Life for the Basement Tapes: A Modern American Epic
The story of the Basement Tapes – those songs recorded in 1967 at a house known as Big Pink in West Saugerties, NY, by Bob Dylan and The Band – is a quintessential American-music story, with all the appropriate elements of a classical epic: a beginning in medias res; the telling