Teleprompters for Musicians: Cheating or Helping?
Reprinted from ModernAcoustic.com
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A recent story in the Washington Post brought to light that Bruce Springsteen was using a teleprompter on stage during his recent tour as well as his last one (read it HERE.) While the article didn’t flat-out deride him for using
Hanging With Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson is messing with the standard performer/audience equation in two ways this year. There was his participation in the Cayamo Songwriters’ cruise in February, and his acting as an instructor at the first “Frets and Refrains” guitar camp, taking place in July in a bucolic Catskill Mountain setting.
Ray Wylie Hubbard: The Grifter's Hymnal
Between the Devil and God, between the first breath and last
Somewhere under heaven with no future and a helluva past
We in the mud and scum of things moan and cry and lying
At least we ain't Lazarus and had to think twice about dying
Least we
Why Roger Miller is my hero (with a partial album guide)
Originally published at MoonRunners
It's easy to write songs like Jim Morrison. No disrespect intended to a charismatic frontman and a great rock band, but everybody can and has written blatant attempts at poetry, shrouded in so much imagery that only the most astute listener will know or
Omar & the Howlers - The Essential Collection
Omar and The Howlers
Essential Collection
RUF Records
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Too much of a good thing?
A couple of years ago, a friend made me a ‘Best of’ Omar & the Howlers to play in the car and I played it non-stop for a couple of weeks until I got
Nanci Griffith at Sage Gateshead
Nanci Griffith
Sage Gateshead
Thursday 22nd March 2012
Alan Harrison
Opening act, the Kennedys, had a nice line in Country-folk with a quaintly English edge to it and songs like When I go and The Midnight Ghost, which was based on a Kerouac novel, won them plenty of new