The Immediate Family After fifty plus years in the music business, Danny Kortchmar has seen it all. The guitarist, who has produced Don Henley, Neil Young and Billy Joel, was unphased at this year’s Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. His initial reaction to attending the annual induction ceremony was that there were a lot […]
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Bloody Crossroads 2020 “Let’s go Brandon!” The slogan that has gained traction across social media over the last few weeks was in full display as voters came out of the gubernatorial elections in my home state of Virginia and boasted on their social channels. The open rebuke to the president that somehow they viewed as […]
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Richie Furay At first glance, a show billed as “The Farewell Concert” might seem to mark the end for Richie Furay. But things are never what they first seem and for Furay, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and founding member of Buffalo Springfield and Poco who helped fuse country and […]
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Mick Jagger, Keith Richards photos by Steve Wosahla The Rolling Stones No Filter tour that began in Europe in 2017 was interrupted due to Covid but restarted in St. Louis in late September and has been crisscrossing the country. This is the first time that the band has toured without drummer Charlie Watts who passed […]
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Rodney Crowell — Wolf Trap Looking up to the balcony and rafters at the Barns at Wolf Trap, Rodney Crowell was blinded by the spotlights for a few seconds. But when he looked down to see the audience, he seemed surprised to see a sea of masks. In this Northern Virginia theater with its impeccable […]
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When Neil Young pulled out of Farm Aid breaking a more than thirty year September tradition, he cited worries about COVID. In comments on his website, he called concert gatherings super-spreader events. Against a rampant surge of cornavirus in recent weeks caused by the Delta variant is the pent-up demand for live music. On […]
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“Charlie’s pretty good tonight,” a fan yelled out after “Rocks Off” two summers ago at FedEx Field outside Washington, D.C. “Get down tonight Charlie!” It was a line he borrowed from Mick Jagger who coined the phrase “Charlie’s good tonight, ain’t he?” on the band’s live album Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out, the cover featuring […]
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(Photo by Sherri Kauk) Early into the film VINYL NATION, a record store owner recounts how a conference of indie store owners was held in the midst of an existential crisis. The narrative was that record stores were closing. With nothing less than the survival of the stores at stake, he had an idea. “Maybe […]
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Mick Jagger never liked to explicitly tell you what he was singing. Maybe he got the idea from Fats Domino who said you should never sing the lyrics out very clearly. Jagger called it great fun trying to decipher lyrics. In an interview with NME he explained why you never saw the lyrics in a […]
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Something strange and unexpected happened a few weeks ago for broadcaster, journalist and sometimes performer Steve Houk. Hosting the annual Cancer Can Rock benefit at 868 Vineyards in Hillsboro, Virginia, Houk watched a crowd that was hugging and shaking hands. Nobody was wearing masks. It almost felt normal. “It felt different, but fabulous,” Houk shared […]
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