The Long, Lonesome Highway of Hank Williams
The roses have faded, there's frost at my door
The birds in the morning don't sing anymore
The grass in the valley is starting to die
And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry.
-- Hank Williams, from “Alone & Forsaken”
The South in the deep, lonely
Springsteen Legendary 1978 Cleveland Agora Concert Set for Release
“We´ve got our own civil defense network tonight….don´t touch your dial this is not a test!” The Holy Grail of Bruce Springsteen concerts is finally going to be officially released as his archival concert project web site live.brucespringsteen.net has chosen The Boss’s legendary show
Remembering Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker, the British blue-eyed soul singer who helped lead the second British music invasion -- along with Cream, The Who, Small Faces, Rod Stewart, Led Zeppelin and Jeff Beck -- has died of lung cancer. He was 70 years old.
Cocker will be remembered for his unique blues-soaked interpretations
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