The Kennedys interview (photo by Ed Cornish) Maura and Pete Kennedy create music using delightful vocals and rustic, twangy sounds; and incorporating banjo, a twangy telecaster, harmonica, pedal steel, and 12-string guitar. The results are rootsy and easy to allow to wash over you and enjoy. We had a chance to talk with them about […]
Guitarist and singer Christian Parker and nearly a dozen of his pals, including Earl Poole Ball, Patrick Cleary, and JayDee Maness, are on a mission. They want to expose new generations to the so-called cosmic country pioneered in the late 1960s and early 1970s by acts such as the Byrds, Gram Parsons, and the Flying […]
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The Kennedys – Smoketree Another bright, pristine album from the Hudson Valley, upstate NY area (about as popular as Woodstock & Laurel Canyon in the 60s) is the new self-produced 12-track album Smoketree (Drops August 21/Independent/40:04) recorded in Tarrytown, NY. The Kennedys provide all-new originals played fairly sparingly by the ever-skillful Pete Kennedy (electric, acoustic […]
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Music & Film Reviews: David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: The Motion Picture (50th-Anniversary ed.), plus John Mellencamp and More Anyone who doubted early on that David Bowie was on the road to superstardom probably hadn’t witnessed his July 3, 1973, show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. It’s notable not just because he […]
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