"I remember my first beer": Steve Earle in Winnipeg - Jan.29, 2010
I saw Steve Earle on the opening date of the Exit 0 tour in May of 1987 and haven't missed a single local show since. I've gone out of my way to see him out of town countless times too, in North Dakota, Minnesota, as well
Review: Laura Nyro - "Season Of Lights... Laura Nyro In Concert" [Iconoclassic 2008]
Think about it: Season Of Lights, published in 1977 as the first live album by the New Yorker Laura Nyro (prematurely died in 1997) as well as her second album after five years of artistic silence following the marriage with the carpenter David Bianchini, is generally and rightly regarded as
Tom Waits Glitter and Doom Live
Glitter and Doom Live By Tom Waits
Review by Douglas Heselgrave
(ANTI)
Tom Waits doesn’t tour much anymore. At this point in his life and career, he probably doesn’t have to do much of anything he doesn’t want to do. At a time when many artists of
Who is the Best Rock Band of All Time?
I apologize for not posting here much lately. I had to return to work shortly after the first of the year and have been chasing a major political story here in my town for the paper ever since. The story is now done (although I suspect I will begin working
I Dream a Highway – Gillian Welch’s Song of America Explicated
I could die happy after writing a song like “I Dream a Highway” by Gillian Welch. It’s personal, cultural, spiritual, and historical. The lyrics are at the end of this post.
One of my poems has a line that goes “you, that fourteen minute song in my head…” That’
Review: The Feelies - "Only Life"
As I could be accused of partisanship, I declare immediately my factiousness towards The Feelies of Bill Million and Glenn Mercer, group that still today I repute one of the most important and underestimated bands of the 1980s. A group that, although listened by “few happy” fans back in the