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 […]
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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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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You can come home again. It was a very personal moment when Peter Cooper and Eric Bruce introduced the last song of their two sets with Thomm Jutz at Jammin’ Java outside Washington, DC. When the two were teenagers going to high school in the DMV area, they spent time at the Birchmere where they […]
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Kari Arnett (Photo By @cowtownchad) You could say that the year 2018 began with a fall. On New Year’s Day, Loretta Lynn fell in her house outside Nashville and broke her hip. The accident put her out of commission for most of the year. Lynn’s recovery cast an eerie silence over the year for a woman […]
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When Steve Forbert first came to New York from Meridian Mississippi more than 40 years ago, he kept journals that survive to this day. Forbert might blame himself for being a self-admitted pack rat, keeping them all these years but they provide a looking glass in real time into the past. They have come to […]
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