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Basia Bulat - Head Butler hit an inflection point a while back with publishers and press agents, and now I am under siege. The books pile up, the CDs form a tower. It’s
Blake Mills - Blake Mills recorded “Break Mirrors," his debut CD, in a friend’s studio in 2009, when he was 22. He released it --- in the summer of 2010 --- on a tiny
Blake Mills: HEIGH HO - “I got a new CD today,” I said. “Guess who?” “Josh Ritter,” the 12.5-year-old replied. “Worse.” “Blake Mills,” she said. Right answer. And a funny answer. We laughed and laughed. Why funny? Because it’s
Blood Bank - Video Blood Bank I thought For Emma, Forever Ago was the CD of 2008. And I wasn't the only one. Critics on two continents flipped for the almost subliminal
Blue - 50 years since Joni Mitchell released "Blue?" It seems impossible; the music is that fresh. And just right, historically; these songs pin where some of us were 50 years ago.
Bob Dylan - "Lou Levy, top man of Leeds Music Publishing company, took me up in a taxi to the Pythian Temple on West 70th Street to show me
Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan recently released "Rough and Rowdy Ways," his first collection of new songs in 8 years --- 71 minutes of music. I listened to it, admired a few songs,
Bob Dylan: Christmas In The Heart - Just because it was a Bob Dylan Christmas album, I ordered five. Some might say I could not possibly have thought that through. Well, I didn't. I just knew this is what
Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding - The most piercing Dylan year for me was 1967-1968. It was the fall of my senior year in college. Thesis done, degree requirements satisfied --- talk about your dish of
Bob Dylan: Modern Times - Well, you're probably going to decide to talk your way through those first two lines --- lots of words, so little time. But in that third line,
Bob Dylan: On his 82nd birthday - Bob Dylan will be 82 on May 24. Before considering whether he’s our Shakespeare or just a terrific game player who’s made a career out of an ever-changing persona, let’s
Bob Dylan: Tempest - My wife has decreed that we will no longer attend Bob Dylan concerts. I was slow to agree, but I have come around. In live performance, you can hear every
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 9, The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 - A well-meaning friend asked me to join the membership committee of PEN, the distinguished writers’ organization. Of course I accepted. But the literary conversations I imagined never
Bon Iver - There comes a moment in social evenings when I tell guests who do not know my wife’s story how, long before she came to New York, she consistently took home
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago - I could fill a Top Ten list with Bon Iver songs and videos. Start here: "Heavenly Father," at the Sydney Opera House, with the Staves. And a close runner-up: "Halocene."
Bonnie Raitt: The story behind “Just Like That,” the song no one expected to win a Grammy. - Over many decades, Bonnie Raitt has won 13 Grammys. She didn’t expect to win one the other night. In the “Song of the Year” category, she was up against Beyoncé, Adele, Taylor
Boz Scaggs - It’s been called “one of the best albums never heard outside San Francisco.” I’d bet my hands that the only readers who know about this CD are 1) senior citizens who
Brandi Carlile: “I knew that song was our ‘Let It Be.'” - This is the year of Brandi Carlile. Her new CD, “Bear Creek,” opened high on the music charts. Her tour is a nightly revelation. She just got engaged. It’s been
