Dr. John has been playing New Orleans jazz, blues, voodoo rock, what have you, since the late 1950s. Now, at the age of 74, he reckons it is touch-and-go whether that special Big Easy culture and sound he so loves […]
Dr. John has been playing New Orleans jazz, blues, voodoo rock, what have you, since the late 1950s. Now, at the age of 74, he reckons it is touch-and-go whether that special Big Easy culture and sound he so loves […]
Billy Walker was killed eight years ago today–May 21, 2006–when he lost control of his van and slid off I-65 near Fort Deposit, Ala. The one-car crash also killed Walker’s wife Bettie, bassist Charles Lilly Jr., and guitar player Daniel […]
Revisiting an earlier piece in honor of what would have been Porter Wagoner’s 86th birthday: Elvis Costello looked at me as if I had produced the Holy Grail. His eyes lit up like a schoolboy at the sight of the […]
The great American writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald once said ‘in life there are no second acts.’ In the case of Levon Helm, this statement is clearly wrong. But last April the legendary drummer of The Band lost his long fought battle […]
“…I take direction, I don’t take dictation. And it’s not for any reason other than that I just feel like I know what I’m doing better than anybody else knows what I’m doing.” On the back of the Charlie Daniels […]
“We were getting to the age to where we could tell who was playing what and how and why. Bobby and I, we really started to hone in on that harmony thing. Because I could look at him and I […]
These days are truly the dogs days for Blue Mountain. The Oxford, Mississippi, band is currently touring in support of their second album, Dog Days, and husband-and-wife Cary Hudson and Laurie Stirratt are also raising their six-month-old part-chow, part-lab Willie. […]
I have to tell you about the bizarre thing that happened while I was talking to Ryan Adams for this story. It was at a monthly show called the Songwriters Alliance Series at the Berkeley Cafe. A guy here by […]
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