Charlie Haden's Bass Sang Around the World, and Back, to The Shenandoah
On the new ECM CD, Last Dance, with pianist Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden’s extended bass solo on “Where Can I Go Without You?” magnificently extends the melodic contours and the meaning of the song, as if the question had been deposited directly in the heart of the listener.
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Legendary Bill Drake Signs Off
I help a friend of mine quite often run his bread route and we have to get up pretty early in the morning to get out on the road. We get to warehouse around 4am and the small radio is playing as we try to wake up and get ready
Joshua Morningstar is a Brand New Angel
ALTCO recordings is building quite a impressive amount of artist that you should take notice of. One of them is Joshua Morningstar who just released a new single on the label called "Brand New Angel," co-written and produced by Stevie Tombstone. I was delightfully surprised of the
Delaney Davidson - "Swim Down Low"
The master of the woozy blue moan is back, with more off-kilter tales of the broken-down and the beaten, the destitute and the desperate – all of whom, it seems, are Delaney Davidson himself. Across ten new songs – four original, five co-written, and one by Nick Lowe – through
Talking New Grass with Sam Bush
Sam Bush tells a story about how bluegrass Founding Father, Bill Monroe, after hearing the tradition-bending sound being touted as progressive bluegrass, once saw young Bush coming his way. “Here comes that mother.” So, the story goes, that is how Bush became known as "the Mother of Bluegrass.
Tom Waits - Last Leaf on the Tree
"And if I should live to be
The last leaf upon the tree
In the spring,
Let them smile, as I do now,
At the old forsaken bough
Where I cling."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I fight off the snow
I fight off the hail
Nothing makes me