Joni Mitchell is an extremely focused and careful artist who has always viewed her albums as finished works that put across everything she wants to communicate with her audience, so she’s never been one to share her creative process through […]
First Rose of Spring, Willie Nelson’s 70th studio album, was finished and set to release on April 29 to coincide with the singer’s 87th birthday. Since then, of course, the world has changed in ways that we’re just beginning to […]
If you didn’t know any better, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that David Bromberg’s new album wasn’t the work of a single performer, recorded at a particular moment in time. There are so many musical voices and melodic […]
Ships running off course, lost sailors, broken hearts and blizzards, chilled bones and lonely inclement weather. Judy Collins’ Winter Stories, the fourth seasonally themed record of her career, is very far from being just another of her feel-good Christmas albums. […]
Anytime Neil Young plays with Crazy Horse, he’s just about guaranteed to alienate half of his fans and inspire an almost religious devotion in the other half. The music they make together is cranky, passionate, and impolite. Highly emotional rather […]
I am sure that you have been in this situation before. You have two friends and you love them both, but for almost completely different reasons. Taken individually, there’s no problem, but you worry about how it’d feel to see […]
Considering how long he’s been around, the extent to which Paul Simon has resisted giving into nostalgic impulses is admirable. A few Simon & Garfunkel reunions notwithstanding, Simon has rarely limited himself to revisiting and cashing in on the past […]
It was a riveting image that was seen around the world. The photograph of the lifeless body of Aylan Kurdi, a small Syrian boy washed up on a Turkish beach that gave a human face to the almost incomprehensible suffering […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave I didn’t see this coming. My defences were down. I was caught off guard. It had been so long since I’d been genuinely surprised and uplifted by a record and could tell that I would love it all […]
An enthusiastic conversation with Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux By Douglas Heselgrave I have loved The Grateful Dead’s music for decades and over the years had the good fortune to hear them in concert many times, but I never had the chance to experience the […]
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