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Author: Steve Wosahla

Springsteen

When The Promise Is Broken: Springsteen & Us

July 28, 2022August 2, 2022Steve Wosahla12

Springsteen & Us In order to make sense of the present, sometimes you have to go back to the past. When The Rolling Stones wanted to charge eight dollars for their show at the Los Angeles Forum in 1969, there was considerable outrage and Rolling Stone ran the headline “The Rolling Stones Impose High Ticket […]

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Billy Joe Shaver

In Live Forever, Oral History Helps To Propel The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022Steve Wosahla0

When Americana Highways columnist Bill Bentley was a fledgling concert booker back in the early Eighties, he slotted an aspiring young singer named Dwight Yoakam to open up for Billy Joe Shaver. Bentley had to work some magic as Shaver, who had written virtually all of Waylon Jennings’ Honky Tonk Heroes, insisted his band back […]

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Timothy B. Schmit

Timothy B. Schmit Talks About Life, The Eagles and His New Album Day By Day

July 14, 2022July 14, 2022Steve Wosahla1

Timothy B. Schmit photo by Dove Shore Timothy B. Schmit possesses one of the most distinctive voices with an imprint that stretches over the decades with such standards as the Eagles’ “I Can’t Tell You Why” and “Love Will Keep Us Alive,” Poco’s “Keep On Tryin’” and the plethora of songs he sang background on: […]

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The Rolling Stones Still Got Live, If You Want It

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022Steve Wosahla0

When The Rolling Stones landed in New York on the worldwide Licks tour, New York’s Madison Square Garden was a venue that they’d played numerous times and was hallowed ground for the live recording of Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out.  “I hope my trousers don’t fall down,” Mick Jagger teased New York in November 1969 […]

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Lucinda Williams and Bonnie Raitt show

At Wolf Trap, Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams Remember Those We’ve Lost

June 17, 2022June 18, 2022Steve Wosahla3

On a June Saturday that felt unseasonably cool and more like early fall, Bonnie Raitt looked up to the lawn seats high on the hill of those we’ve lost at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap and seemed overcome with emotion. After being shut down during the pandemic, the joy of being back onstage at […]

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Stephane Wrembel

Stephane Wrembel On The Mystery of Making Music and Human Connection

June 9, 2022June 9, 2022Steve Wosahla0

Stephane Wrembel photo by Casey Ryan Vrock Stephane Wrembel has been described as the greatest living acoustic guitar player alive. But when you speak with him, he seems less interested in talking about himself and more about the mystery of making music. In his native French accent, Wrembel passionately philosophizes about the irrational response we […]

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Gareth Dunlop

Three Friends, Three Hours: Foy Vance, Lee Rogers and Gareth Dunlop Serenade The Birchmere

May 17, 2022May 17, 2022Steve Wosahla0

(Gareth Dunlop at the Birchmere. Photos by Kelly Wosahla) The path that took Gareth Dunlop to the US and a solo set at the famed Birchmere outside Washington, DC, can be traced back twenty years ago. There in the pubs of his native Belfast he and Lee Rogers, another aspiring singer-songwriter, spent time in pubs […]

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Jay Bennett, Gone Too Soon (Where are you, Jay Bennett?–Film Review)

April 21, 2022April 22, 2022Steve Wosahla0

In the opening of the new documentary Where are you Jay Bennett?, we hear the voice of the onetime Wilco member not only philosophizing but somewhat laughing about the events that led to his infamous departure. “I can understand why he wanted to have his own band,” Bennett muses in measured calm before he expounds, […]

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The Zombies Fill The Birchmere Music Hall

April 21, 2022April 28, 2022Steve Wosahla0

The memorable melodies and harmonies of the Sixties-era band the Zombies are like an effervescent summer breeze that rushes by and instantly hooks you. For those of us who first heard “Time of the Season” and “She’s Not There” on 45 singles and tinny AM transistor radios, the same feeling persists to this day even […]

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Spotify

For Spotify, The Future Is Already Here

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022Steve Wosahla0

About that “JRE thing.” That’s how Spotify CEO Daniel Eck referred to podcast host, Joe Rogan and his show the Joe Rogan Experience and recent events that forced a new corporate policy on COVID misinformation. On Spotify’s quarterly earnings call, Eck said it was too early to know whether there would be fallout from advertisers […]

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