“Never has the mundane seemed so longingly attractive.” So declared Bruce Springsteen on his own E Street Radio radio show and series From His House To Yours. Springsteen has occasionally called into the radio station built upon him by SiriusXM. But In recent weeks, Springsteen has taken to the mic of E Street Nation playing […]
“No, I didn’t travel with any snakes or candelabras,” Scarlet Rivera was telling me. I had brought up the film Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorcese in which she plays a starring support role. When I asked her about her reaction to the film, the first words out of her mouth […]
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The cover is positively West 4th Street. Willie Nile, in shades, standing underneath the iconic sign of the subway station that runs through the heart of New York City and his Greenwich Village neighborhood. He’s been a fixture here and has had the same apartment approaching fifty years. Nile’s new album and it’s cinematic title […]
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Right now the Chuck Wagon Gang should be on the road playing churches, fairs and festivals as they have over two centuries. The perennial touring gospel quartet is used to meeting fans who regal them with stories of how earlier generations of their families gathered around the radio to hear “I’ll Fly Away.” Instead singer […]
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Maps don’t always tell the whole story. No doubt you’ve seen images of dots and colors filling the country to show the incidence of Covid-19. But maps don’t reveal all of its ripple effects. If you see Kansas City, you might not know that all of the Mastersons tour merch is stuck there in a […]
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“Hi Nora. This is one of the best verses ever.” Jeff Tweedy was four songs and a couple of verses into his set at Town Hall in New York when he audibled during “Christ For President.” The shout out was to Nora Guthrie, the daughter of Woody Guthrie and the curator of his archives. On […]
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Lilly Hiatt (Photo by Glenn Cook) The other day I was walking down the hall of the non-profit I work at when I ran into one of our senior leaders. “Hi, how are you,” I started to say as she smiled and covered up her face and mumbled how I caught her eating lunch, a […]
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If you’ve seen the Eagles over the last few years, sometimes it feels like Don Henley has stood at the lectern like a historian tracing the history of the Eagles. The professorial approach has been underscored by Henley’s overt seriousness and dry delivery. It’s hardly the stuff of rock and roll and as the Eagles […]
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photo by Glenn Cook Pretty soon Congress will be in session. Marty Stuart is raising funds for his new museum in his hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi. There’s a chance to have your own name on a pew in what will be known as Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Country Music Museum. A visit to the […]
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In the historic Sixth and I synagogue and arts center in downtown Washington, DC, Amanda Shires was looking up to the balcony, recalling the year she left her newborn daughter home with her husband and took to the road to promote My Piece of Land, albeit with a heavy heart of guilt. Traveling around in […]
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