(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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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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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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(Dallas Frazier with Marty Stuart and Connie Smith) Long before he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame at the young age of 36, Dallas Frazier was a late depression era child who made the migration to California like many of his fellow Oklahomans. Like a real life enactment out of The Grapes […]
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(Lilly Hiatt singing “Melissa”) In 2021, Trying To Get Back To Where We Once Belonged If you felt like you were in a time warp in 2021, you weren’t alone. All it took was watching eight hours of Get Back, the film documenting the Beatles’ fabled Let It Be sessions, revisiting Bruce Springsteen’s “No Nukes” […]
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A few weeks ago, Vicki Peterson went back to school. One of the founding members of the Bangles and member of the Vocal Hall of Fame was the guest of North White High School in Manion, Indiana and their history of rock and roll class. Peterson took questions from school administrators and students alike who […]
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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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