Mickey Newbury: 1940 to 2002
"The dancing stops, but the music goes on."
In the deepest blue of night, in the wee hours of September 29th, Mickey Newbury drifted off to dream at his home in rural Oregon, and never came back. His passing was no surprise, as he'd been battling
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life And Times Of Muddy Waters
During his first trip to England, Muddy Waters, ruminating about his humble beginnings and how far the blues had taken him in the world, told a reporter from Melody Maker, "There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to.
Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream
Mark Knopfler's often beautiful and affecting third solo album is about exile. It's not about the exile forced by war or famine, but by the natural progression of ordinary life. "Why Aye Man", the opening tune, could have anchored a good early Dire Straits
Peter Wolf - Sleepless
As the frontman of the J. Geils Band, it seemed Peter Wolf hardly ever made a wrong move. Geils was an R&B-fueled rock 'n' roll powerhouse, and Wolf was at the center of it all, a charismatic singer and showman whose hipster persona wasn'
David Grier - I've Got The House To Myself
David Grier has a fine bluegrass pedigree; during the 1960s and '70s, his father, Lamar, played banjo for both Bill Monroe and Hazel Dickens. However, as a member of bands such as Psychograss and Phillips, Grier, & Flinner, his own recent work has often tended toward the avant-garde.
Will Slayden - African-American Folk Songs From West Tennessee
Recorded music can serve a variety of purposes. Sometimes it entertains, sometimes it empowers, and sometimes it merely documents the weaving of a particular thread in our cultural fabric. At various points in the last half-century these songs might have done all three. Of course, musically speaking, 1952 wasn&