Dark Was the Night: The Life and Times of Blind Willie Johnson
History has shown us time and again that it takes a very potent recipe of events to spawn a movement. More often than not, a mixture of economic, political, and social factors influence the birth of new ideas and practices. In this particular case I am employing the word movement
How I Uncovered a Bit of Local History (and discovered some great music in the process)
A few months back, I was surfing on the internet, looking at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame's web site. I enjoy visiting that site from time to time to discover new music and to daydream about being alive when it actually was new music.
Anyway, on that particular
From The Acoustic Edge, Naomi Soule and Terry Moses on 89.1 The Wood, KCLC St. Louis MO
No Acoustic Edge show this past Sunday, Decembr 27, 2009. We took off for the Christmas Holiday weekend. We will be back on the air on January 3, 2010. Happy New Year. Listed below is the most recent Acoustic Edge Playlist heard 12/20/09 on 89.1 The Wood,
TALK ABOUT BLOOMFIELD BUT DON'T FORGET MILLER (AND BUFFALO)
Was noting Kevin Lynch's post on Les Paul and Michael Bloomfield, and the overall theme today, RE: great musical losses of 2009. Nowhere, however, was there mention in Kevin's post about Steve Miller and his relationship with Les...nor his loss of Les, and of Norton
In My Life: Caroline Herring, Judy Collins, Joan Baez and the Eternal Return
Half a dozen albums that I had ordered from my local record store came in last week, and Caroline Herring’s “Golden Apples of the Sun” was among them. I knew the song from an album by Judy Collins with the same title and was looking forward to hearing her
Great Producers: T Bone Burnett
In my opinion, the producer is the most under-acknowledged person involved with an album. Perhaps they bring this upon themselves, because like a referee or an umpire, one should not notice them if they do a good job. Yet when one person is responsible for dozens of great albums, people