If you’ve ever sat to listen in the center of an acoustic session, you know the aural bliss of hearing pure tones straight from the players’ instruments and singers’ voices. Imagine the sounds possible surrounded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt […]
If you’ve ever sat to listen in the center of an acoustic session, you know the aural bliss of hearing pure tones straight from the players’ instruments and singers’ voices. Imagine the sounds possible surrounded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt […]
Shannon McNally obviously welcomes a challenge. Her recent tour, opening for jam-band sensation Robert Randolph, guaranteed crowds oblivious to even a good act in the opening slot. At the show I attended, it took just two songs for her soulful […]
Synesthesia is a phenomenon in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another — hearing color, say, or tasting sound. It’s also just about the only way to describe Sparklehorse’s new album without reaching for adjectives like “gossamer” […]
With four albums of their own under their belt, The Band knew a few things. They’d had all that training — mostly years of “Midnight Rambles” with Ronnie Hawkins — in enough beer halls and strip joints right up the […]
Rick Nelson was the first rock ‘n’ roll star whose rise can be linked directly to television. Nearly a quarter-century before the advent of MTV, “The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet” gave him a national stage to perform and promote […]
Recently I’ve watched with a mixture of fascination and horror a TV docu-soap called “Making The Band”, which purports to show a Backstreet-like boy group pieced together with an assembly-line rigor that would do Henry Ford proud. This, we’re to […]
From the opening rhythmic vibe that bursts into a New Orleans funeral-march horn section, it’s apparent that what follows is not your average singer-songwriter fare. Maybe it is the voice — a resonant, nasal, keening, disarming warble that’s inclusive of […]
Whoospankeroo, me to you, let’s like blowing on a curly party favor get one thing straight: Tanya Tucker is the reason brassy rhymes with sassy, and that lassie’s got ’em brassy as any metallurgical monkey, primatey. It may be a […]
When an artist’s second release falls short of expectations, a great deal of time and energy is often devoted to analyzing, philosophizing and theorizing about the reasons — e.g, the artist had their lifetime to create the first batch of […]
After finishing the ’80s on the top of his game as one of the best singer-songwriters in captivity, John Hiatt has spent much of this decade playing the court jester on adult contemporary stations, a sort of comic-relief sideshow to […]
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