I’m in a new Joan Baez video. But you won’t get to see it and I’m certain I won’t. It was filmed on her Fare Thee Well Tour when she stopped at the Ferguson Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News. I’m pretty sure only Joan will look at it. […]
“It’s great to be here at the Astrodome,” Adam Carroll said in a sly Texan drawl. “I’ve always wanted to play here.” Standing onstage in the cavernous basement of Hill Country Barbecue in Washington DC, Adam Carroll and his wife Chris Carroll must have felt like they were a long way from home. But here […]
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As anniversaries and May dates go, this one is special. It was fifty years ago this month that a then seventeen year old named Nils Lofgren walked into the Cellar Door in Washington, DC upon a band called Neil Young and Crazy Horse. The Maryland native approached the singer who handed him his guitar and […]
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It was shortly after 8:00 on Saturday night when a Facebook feed appeared on my page from Mitch Slater who was at the Tribeca Grill attending the 27th annual Kristen Ann Carr Fund benefit A Night to Remember. The event is named in honor of the daughter of Barbara Carr, Bruce Springsteen’s co-manager and her […]
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Long before he became a songwriting partner of Guy Clark, Shawn Camp was once a waiter who served Clark a bowl of chili. Camp is also someone who has also been to the famed Texas Chili Parlor referenced in the opening lines of Clark’s “Dublin Blues.” It was there that he had a Mad Dog […]
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photos by Glenn Cook Lilly Hiatt wears her heart on her sleeve. But at Pearl Street Warehouse in Washington, D.C., it was the sleeve that seemed a little heavy, not the heart. Hiatt came onstage with a Rainbow t-shirt that was cut across the top and draped over her left arm like a […]
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On the third Tuesday of March, Don Vernon Thompson passed away and went to his final resting place. The lifelong farmer and rancher was 87. “If love could have saved him,” his family wrote about the lifelong farmer and rancher, “he would have lived forever. Everybody loved him.” I can’t say I knew the man […]
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One of the best memories Larry Campbell has of his days playing with Bob Dylan was meeting Paul Barrere and Billy Payne of Little Feat. When Dylan was paired with Phil Lesh and Friends, the two mainstays of Little Feat were playing in the Grateful Dead bassist’s evolving side project. Every night Campbell would venture […]
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The tall and lanky Mick Fleetwood was the first member of Fleetwood Mac to appear onstage at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. As he waved to the crowd, he made his ceremonial counterclockwise circle to his drum kit and stretched out his arms to begin the traditional opening song of “The Chain.” John […]
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It was 5:00 a.m. when Mac Wiseman heard a knock on his door. As he went to the door of his hotel room, there stood Johnny Cash. The night before Wiseman shared a bill at Carnegie Hall with Cash and the extended members of the Carter Family. In his hand, Cash held a copy of […]
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