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Gun Metal Sky - I get many self-produced CDs. I try to listen to them all. Sadly, I usually make it only through a song or two. And then I send off an
Gym Music - I work out. In part, because I like going to the gym and the people I know there. But also, because like any sensible late-life father, I'd like to be
Haim - Almost exactly a year ago --- in the first edition of 2012 --- I wrote about Blake Mills, a California musician you never heard of. But you would, I
Harry Styles: “Matilda” - You are not a teenage girl, so you may not be aware that Harry Styles begins 15 nights at Madison Square Garden on August 20, moves on to 5 nights
Holly Gleason on Prince: “Like the snake in the garden, he gave us an apple that tasted like music… and sex… and love.” - em>An artist dies, and only then, as we step back, do we start to see him/her whole. So it was with Bowie, so now with Prince. Small as a refugee,
Hozier & Mavis Staples: Nina Cried Power - It's not the waking, it's the rising It is the grounding of a foot uncompromising It's not forgoeing of the lie It's not the opening of eyes It's not the waking, it's the
Impossible for me not to think of this now: Bob Dylan, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” - He wrote it in 1965. He could have written this today. Listen.... William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll, With a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger At a Baltimore hotel
J.J. Cale - J.J. Cale died on July 26th, 2013, at 74. If your interest in music is more than casual, you may know that Eric Clapton did not write "Cocaine" and "After
Jackson Browne - Listening to 'Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1' --- Jackson Browne's new 'live' CD --- I time-travel back to 1966. I was 20, and, in my prodigious way, writing a piece about a
Jackson Browne: Yeah, Yeah - Jackson Browne could have been looking into many New York windows when he wrote “I don’t know what to say about these days/ I see people changing in the strangest
Jann Arden - In distant 1990-something, Jann Arden had a hit. "Insensitive." You may remember it: oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home by the vagueness in your eyes your
Jason Isbell: “The Nashville Sound” - Early in 2016, I encouraged you to pay attention to Something More Than Free. It went on to win two Grammy Awards (Best Americana Album & Best American Roots Song)
Jason Isbell: The best of the best - HEADLINE NEWS, OCTOBER, 2022: An English site, AUK, has just named “Southeastern,” Jason Isbell’s 2013 release, as its “Number One Americana Album of the 21st Century.” And not by a
Jesse Malin - A few years ago, I “discovered” Jesse Malin. More accurately, “Todd Youth,” one song by Jesse Malin. I watched the video dozens of times that summer because it so accurately
Jim White - If you'll step into the Jim White cult, you'll be in good company... but you'll see no one you recognize. An easy guarantee: Very few people know who Jim White is,
John Prine - On January 1, 2005, Head Butler was an infant --- less than a year old. And yet, thanks to Holly Gleason, I had scored an interview with John Prine, who
Josh Ritter: One Man Band - Josh Ritter The Allen Room, January 31, 2007
