The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11
The brief period that The Band and Bob Dylan spent in 1967 (in actuality only from June to October of that year) recording music in the basement of a pink house in West Saugerties, NY, was as remarkably brief as it was fecund, both for the amount of recordings authorized
Deep inside the Song: "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen (and Jeff Buckley, etc.)
Pause, for readers to roll their eyes. This song, after all, has been sung into absurdity. It's been performed beautifully by great singers like kd lang and Jeff Buckley before her. But it's also been paraded around by American Idol contestants and high school talent show
The Essence of Underground Music
Music entertains. Music comforts. But what happens when music pledges? That is when you divert from the mainstream music scene to the out-of-the-box and make a move. Social movements take root among the mass and travel into actions coming from the people in different forms, depending on
Defining "Americana": Isn't It Just Country-Rock?
With just a few weeks to go before the 15th annual AmericanaFest in Nashville, now is a good time to ask: What the heck is "Americana" music anyway?
The Americana Music Association, which puts on the conference, puts it this way:
Americana is contemporary music that incorporates elements
The 53rd Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival: A Most Quotable Weekend
Double rainbow, check. Amazing music, double check. My 31st year at the 53rd annual Philadelphia Folk Festival has come and gone, but the memories are lingering on like lyrics and notes across the sweet waves of blue sky and high moon. This was a stellar year on the fields of
Peggy Lipton - The Complete Ode Recordings
Can you be nostalgic for a time and scene you never experienced or were maybe not even alive during? Bandanas and bell bottoms, lava lamps and love beads, cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway in a convertible Aston Martin - these are some of the images brought to mind listening to