A Personal Journey with Sarah Harmer's 2000 release, You Were Here
The beginning of my relationship with Sarah Harmer’s 2000 release, You Were Here, coincided with my first year at WYEP-FM, Pittsburgh. This was also when I first met Sarah when she stopped by the station for an in-studio performance. Since then, when Sarah visits Pittsburgh, I always volunteer to
Billy Collins' Poem "The Blues"
Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States (2001 to 2003) is a Distinguished Professor at colleges in New York and Florida. TheNew York Times has called him “the most popular poet in America”, with his poetry books selling far beyond most volumes of poetry. His poem,The Blues,
Blue Rose Code - The Ballads of Peckham Rye
Is it too early to nominate this as best CD of 2014?
I confess that I had written this review countless times in my head before hearing a single track from Blue Rose Code's new CD 'The Ballads of Peckham Rye'. I'd heard rumours
Looking Into Jackson Browne
Tribute albums can be tricky. Artists paying their respects to the subject of their veneration on the album find themselves confronted with a decision about how faithfully they should hew to the artist’s original versions of a song. If they do veer too far from the original, how will
Going on a Musical Journey with Leon Russell
Right from the opening notes on any Leon Russell song, you know you’re in for the ride of your life, and his new album, Life Journey, is no different. His unmistakable bluesy, barrel roll piano runs careen around the dirt roads of swampy jazz and funk, swerve around the
Sharing White Toast with Hayden: My Musical Journey with an Artist and His Work
Full disclosure: I’m a huge fan of Canadian singer/songwriter Hayden (Paul Hayden Desser). I’ll claim to be a fan since 1996, when his debut album Everything I Long For was released in the United States by Outpost (an offshoot of Geffen). Such is my fandom that when