“We didn’t know we were defining the culture,” the late Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees recounted in an interview. “We were just Barry, Robin and me. What the hell was going on?” That observation made in a new HBO documentary, The Bee Gees: How To Mend a Broken Heart, is a pivotal moment chronicling […]
When I look back on 2020, it felt like it barely started before it was over. For me it effectively ended on a March night in New York when I saw one of the greatest shows of my life. It was around midnight when the dual guitars of Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes culminated in […]
Like many Bruce Springsteen fans, I’ve always pondered what I would say if I ever ran into him. As scenario planning goes and to be prepared, I’ve mapped it out in my mind several times and it always comes back to something like this. “There’s this great book It’s Too Late To Stop Now,” I […]
As the days of the pandemic drag by, Fridays are important for Chris Hillman and his wife Connie. As a founding member of the Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Manasssas, Souther, Hillman and Furay and Desert Rose Band, Hillman can be found playing Trivial Pursuit on Skype. The bassist and mandolin player has a tradition with […]
You might have missed it but there was some good news recently. This summer the world welcomed Dalton Loren Yoakam, the son of Dwight Yoakam and his wife Emily Joyce. Earlier this year, the longtime couple exchanged their vows in a private ceremony in Santa Monica in front of ten people, all of whom were […]
If it seems about 100 years ago to quote the song, maybe it’s because it was. Or at least close to 50 if you’re counting. That’s when The Rolling Stones released Goats Heads Soup and now have declared what’s old is new with an elaborate reissue series. Goats Head Soup 2020 anyone? As a young […]
Joe Biden accepted his party’s nomination as the democratic candidate to be the next president of the United States. Come with me, he implored a convention and a nation, come with me out of the darkness. “I’ll be an ally of the light, not the darkness,” he declared.” A few days later, multiple generations of […]
Photo by Autumn Dozier Since the pandemic began in March, Emma Swift has been out of the house exactly twice. One was to the vet for her cat Ringo Stardust and the second was to the post office to mail copies to her native Australia of Blonde On The Tracks, a collection of eight Bob […]
Peter Green wasn’t in the room but it felt like he owned the night. As the house lights came up and stagehands broke down the stage on Fleetwood Mac’s last tour, the sounds of the instrumental “Albatross” suddenly filled the arena, sounding like the soundtrack of a sunburst and rainbow forming after a thunderous rain […]
(Photo by Erick Anderson) “You gotta be from the South to know about boogers,” Charlie Daniels cracked. When Daniels strapped his guitar on five years ago at a show in Manassas, Virginia, he derived great suspense as a storyteller, recalling the mysterious holes in the ground that attract bugs, skeeters and boogers in “The Legend […]
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