"Tom Waits The Early Years With Bones Howe"
On December 7, 1949, Tom Waits was born. In 2011, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. And one year after "Rain Dogs" was released, Waits co-starred in Jim Jarmusch's film "Down By Law" in 1986.
Waits was and
CD Review - Samantha Fish "Runaway"
When he wrote, “You’ve Got To Suffer If You Want To Sing The Blues,” bluesman David Bromberg wryly addressed the ostensible need for long (and preferably sad) life experience to play blues. However, if you’re 22 years old, live in the Midwest, and have reviewers claim you “paid
Unsung Heroes of Americana Music: The Return of The Sweethearts of the Rodeo
During the 60’s Southern California’s Manhattan Beach was not known for its country music. But, along with the surf culture that formed in earnest in the 50's, music was as constant a pre-occupation as baseball or football was to the youth of other towns. Early
Celtic Colours Festival Review
Guest Blog by Llyn De Danaan
The Celtic Colours Festival, named for the adornment of brilliant fall foliage that cloaks the hills on Cape Breton in October, recently finished its 16th year. Its mission, as Joella Foulds, founder and artistic director told us at one evening session, is to “promote,
CD Review: Jefferson Airplane / Jefferson Starship / Starship: The Essential (RCA Legacy, 2012)
Reissued two-disc anthology of San Francisco legends
Legacy’s two-disc Essential collection is actually a re-branded reissue of the 1998 Hits release, reiterating the same 35-track lineup and including Ben Fong-Torres original liner notes. If you pop these discs in your computer’s CD drive,
CD Review: Bill Wilson - Ever Changing Minstrel (Columbia/Tompkins Square, 1973/2012)
Extraordinary, yet virtually unknown singer-songwriter Americana from 1973
A label as big as Columbia in the early ‘70s was bound to miss a few opportunities, even ones they’d signed, recorded and released. Such was the case for this 1973 rarity, the product of an Indiana singer-songwriter, the