Byrds - Live at the Fillmore -- February 1969/Untitled-Unissued/Byrdmaniax/Farther Along
If you've ever followed a professional sports franchise, you're already familiar with the progression. Built-up through the farm system or draft, the young team is loaded with talent, and though they lack experience, they play with such spirit and enthusiasm that you're more than
Chuck Prophet - The Hurting Business
Even though Chuck Prophet has been recording as a solo artist for the better part of this decade, he's probably still best known in the States as the guitarist in Green On Red. Prophet joined the psychedelic-twang outfit that also featured Dan Stuart and Chris Cacavas on 1985&
Gram Parsons Tribute - Sessions At West 54th (New York City. NY)
Billed as "Emmylou Harris, the Mavericks and more," this taping for the PBS series "Sessions At West 54th" promised a considerable range of possibilities as to who "more" would be. Waiting in line to get in, it seemed everyone either thought they knew or
Tom Waits - Beacon Theatre (New York City, NY)
We are waiting.
The light...cuts through the darkened hall, twists, turns...searching for something. It swoops to the rear door, finds its spot. Into the light slides the 13-years-absent Mr. Waits, entourage behind him, pushing up the aisle now, toward the stage, bullhorn in hand, bantamweight champion of the
Love Always, Patsy: Patsy Cline's Letters To A Friend
In the fall of 1955, Patsy Cline struck up a correspondence with Treva Miller, a teenage country music fan from Tennessee, who wrote offering to set up a fan club. Cline, who'd just released her first single, "A Church, A Courtroom And Then Goodbye", the previous
Michael Hurley - Primary Colors
No matter the circumstance, Michael Hurley is a quintessential practitioner of the less-is-more dictum. As a writer of riveting and timeless songs, his phrases are short and potent, in service to verses at once elegantly concise and mysteriously layered. In conversation he favors one-word answers, though if he's