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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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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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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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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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Dallas Frazier

Dallas Frazier Wrote The Songs That Made The World Sing

February 1, 2022February 1, 2022Steve Wosahla1

(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 Get Back year end review

In 2021, Trying To Get Back To Where We Once Belonged

December 27, 2021December 28, 2021Steve Wosahla0

(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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Vicki Peterson

Action Skulls and Back To School Days For Vicki Peterson

December 9, 2021December 10, 2021Steve Wosahla0

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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