Jonathan Bernstein What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome Fathers and sons. It’s always fathers and sons. But in What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, his carefully researched and sensitively written biography of Justin Townes Earle, author Jonathan Bernstein is careful not to make Justin’s lineage the whole story. Bernstein acknowledges inheritance without letting […]
Steve Earle returns to Milwaukee with stories to tell Steve Earle returned to one of his favorite haunts Monday night, Aug. 25 — Milwaukee’s historic Pabst Theater — for the fifth time since 2008. The Hardcore Troubadour has made The Pabst a regular stop on his North American tours, having performed at the intimate venue […]
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In a mere five-year period leading up to mid-1971, Stephen Stills built quite the resume. In 1966, he co-founded the great Buffalo Springfield and wrote what became its best-known song, “For What It’s Worth.” Two years later, he appeared with Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield on the hit Super Session album and co-founded the ultra-successful […]
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Jerry Jeff is the third and final of Steve Earle’s tributes to what he refers to as his “first-hand teachers, the heroes I was lucky enough to sit across the room from so I could listen and learn up close…” Jerry Jeff is, of course, Jerry Jeff Walker, best known for writing the perfect “Mr. […]
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