The first time I ever heard the words “Grateful Dead” were in the same breadth as Workingman’s Dead. I was a nerdy nine or ten year old but curious and quizzical with a tendency to ask others older than me […]
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It is not often you get to see two legends whose lives have been so intertwined as Stephen Stills and Judy Collins. With over a hundred years between them and the heights they achieved, one less in the know might be […]
It felt like a warm evening with old friends Saturday at the Park Theatre in Cranston, RI, as Stephen Stills and Judy Collins played a memorable show of originals, covers, and few new ones before a sold-out crowd. The warmth from the legendary performers was evident, […]
Summer is as close to a season of “downtime” as there is in the crowdfunding world. Most artists are on tour taking advantage of the summer market and not in the studio. Labels fill this gap by making summer the […]
Rodney Crowell once told me that talking about songwriting is “like doing card trick on the radio.” Everyone who’s ever sat down to write a song quickly discovers the challenge she faces in coming up with a subject about which […]
Stephen Stills has never been reluctant to raise his voice in song when he sees “something happening here/what it is ain’t exactly clear.” On December 5, 1966, Buffalo Springfield recorded those now-classic, and often-repeated words, from Stills’ song “For What […]
These days the University of Florida may be best known for its powerhouse football teams, with quarterbacks like Tim Tebow taking the spotlight both on the field and off. The town of Gainesville, once smack on the tourist trail of […]
Stephen Stills was once my favorite musician. That was long ago. I was a little too young to appreciate his first acclaimed group, Buffalo Springfield, but I loved what he delivered in Crosby, Stills and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash […]
Between tenures in Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stills found his well-stocked songbook without a public vehicle. Holding songs that would sustain him through CS&N’s debut, two solo albums, and 1972’s Manassas, he plunked down cash to get […]
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