The Rolling Stones’ last album of new material, 2023’s Hackney Diamonds, was their first such CD in 18 years. Now, a little less than three years later, they’re back with Foreign Tongues. They must have realized that at this point, waiting another 18 years to record again wouldn’t work out so well. Time is not […]
Music Reviews: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts, plus Bluegrass from Merle Travis, Mac Wiseman & Joe Maphis If you weren’t lucky enough to be in the audience for the 25th-anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concerts on Oct. 29 and 30, 2009, you could still witness them via the Blu-ray of the […]
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Music Reviews: Joe Grushecky and a Rolling Stones tribute, plus Lynne Hanson, Laurie Lewis, and Nat King Cole Joe Grushecky: Something Old, Something New Joe Grushecky, a household name in his Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania hometown, has never achieved the sort of fame enjoyed by such similarly styled artists as Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny, and John Mellencamp. […]
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Music Reviews: the Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds, plus James Talley, Clay Parker and Jodi James, and the Babys The last time the Rolling Stones released an album of new original material, 2005’s A Bigger Bang, George W. Bush’s father was president, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were 61, guitarist and bass player Ron Wood was […]
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Dead of Winter “I will measure up my life, my days as they go screaming by With Xs on the calendar, till pennies on my eyes I will count my many blessings with gratefulness my mentor And I will count myself in luck as I count the dead of winter” An unfinished song by […]
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