“Do you know that old song ‘Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage?’” folk singer Si Kahn asks last month, a few days after his 75th birthday. “That’s the relationship between music and activism,” […]
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Though Stephen Stills and a handful of other musicians have spoken reverently for decades about the music of the late reclusive 1960s singer-songwriter Fred Neil, Neil has remained unknown to most music fans. His life was largely a mystery after […]
The North Country is a hidden, little-known rural region of New York State that borders Canada, but it has played a major role in the music of The Gibson Brothers. “I think the isolation of the North Country/Adirondacks region helped […]
Chris Smither’s new double album is titled Call Me Lucky, and he surely sounds like a man with no complaints. “Call me lucky” are the first words he sings on the album’s first song “The Blame’s on Me,” and “on […]
Eric Andersen’s new double album, The Essential Eric Andersen, spans 50 years of his recording career and clearly shows why he is one of America’s best — though, today, largely unknown — singer-songwriters. During Andersen’s recent spring tour on the […]
Randy Bachman says his musical heroes are “guys who don’t stop, even though they can.” He names 10 such heroes:Neil Young, Sting, EltonJohn, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Bonamassa, Robert Plant, Willie Nelson,and Tony Bennett. As Bachman heads for […]
Memories of the night of Oct. 29, 2016, at Atlanta’s Lakewood Amphitheatre will forever be etched in the mind of guitarist and songwriter Tommy Talton. It was the last time Talton spoke to and played with Gregg Allman, joining him […]
For three years, the prevailing theme of my Best I’ve Ever Seen column has been musicians talking about the best concerts they attended by other artists. To mix it up a bit, I decided to broaden the theme and from […]
Blue Rodeo’s catalog is vast and filled with so many outstanding albums that it’s easy to overlook the excellent solo albums released through the years by members of the Canadian band. A new album, Constellation, was just released by Jim […]
Jon Langford has had a prolific musical career, releasing many stellar albums solo and with the Mekons, the Three Johns, the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Skull Orchard, and the Waco Brothers. His most recent album, Four Lost Souls, is so different […]
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