The Legacy of Phil Ochs
By Sandy Carter
November 1997
In the past three decades, the turbulent era known as "the 1960s" has been so worked over by the mainstream media that its become almost impossible to recall that these were years in which all of society's fundamental relations of power
"Knockin' On Dylan's & Sam Peckinpah's Door"
In 1973, I was only 14 years old and it was a golden year for music & film. Instead of following teen rock stars I was, you might say, way ahead of my time. My idols were guys like Kris Kristofferson & Bob Dylan. So by sheer good luck and
Leon Hendrix - A Brother's Story
It was one of those nights when there's just too much going on, and you have to make some choices. I was cool to juggle some stuff, but what I knew I did not want to miss was Leon Hendrix reading from his new book, Jimi Hendrix -
Marketing Patent Medicine Folk and Blues
President Theodore Roosevelt once called the Chautauqua “the most American thing in America.” At the latter part of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century, the Chautauqua was one of the most popular shows in rural America. Though ordinarily billed as “high culture”, with an emphasis on education
Meet Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst: The Ties That Bind Shovels & Rope
Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst like to play rough together. And by following the two-heads-are-better-than-one line of thinking, they hope to make some noise after officially turning their solo acts into a duo called Shovels & Rope two years ago.
The first product of this Odd Couple-like relationship is
O Be Joyful - Shovels and Rope
Shovels and Rope is the firstborn child of Charleston, SC music super-couple Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent. (Additional Note: they released a CD called Shovels And Rope as a duo, but this is the first release where they call their band Shovels and Rope. So they named their band