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Martha Wainwright: Come Home to Mama - In the mood for some over-the-top emotion? Try this. Anna McGarrigle was dying, and she knew it. But she loved Christmas and the family holiday concerts that raised money for cancer research,
Martha Wainwright: Come Home to Mama - In the mood for some over-the-top emotion? Try this. Kate McGarrigle was dying, and she knew it. But she loved Christmas and the family holiday concerts that raised money for cancer research,
Mary Chapin Carpenter: The Things That We Are Made Of - “The Things That We Are Made Of” looks like what you’d expect from one of the few singer-songwriters who can legitimately be described as an artist. There’s the star producer:
Matthew Ryan - It was the summer we were living in Paris. The early evening was sunny and warm, and I had a business dinner a mile down the Seine, so I walked.
Moments From This Theatre - Moments From This Theatre Dan
Movits - According to the publicity sheet, Movits (pronounced: Move-its) is a hip-hop swing jazz band. From Sweden. And, yes, the lyrics are in Swedish. Put those words in a single sentence,
Mumford & Sons - Christina’s evening ritual is to lie on the floor of her sons’ room until they fall asleep. The other night, she plugged herself into her iPod and listened to
Music for the New Year - So he's a crook and likely insane, and she's a liar, and then there's the heartless one, and the bought-and-paid-for one, and the know-nothing, and --- but after two years,
My 10 Favorite Videos of 2010 - If you haven't read it, heard it, or seen it, it doesn’t matter how old it is --- “new” means “new to you.” That’s one of the few guiding principles around
Neil Young - There's big excitement among Neil Young
Nick Drake - Nick Drake was born on June 19, 1948. He would have been 75 this year. But that's impossible. Nick Drake either did or didn't kill himself in 1974, when he
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Party Time: The Head Butler Playlist - Holidays mean parties --- not that we really need an excuse. Parties need music --- and more often than we’d like, we have to make excuses for that. Someone plays entire
Paul Kelly - When Guest Butler Julia May asked about celebrating Paul Kelly, he wasn't even a name to me. Then I listened to 'They Thought I Was Asleep' and understood why Australians say
Paul Simon: Graceland - "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture," Elvis Costello has said. “It's a really stupid thing to want to do.” Perhaps. And after a certain age, it’s certainly a bit
Paul Simon: Live in New York City - If you sense there’s been a lot of Paul Simon on these screens of late, you’re right. There was the video at the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the World
Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What - Some years ago, I was invited to be on the membership committee of PEN, the distinguished international literary organization. That was not someone’s best idea --- because there’s almost no
Paul Simon: Songwriter - This is a poem by a recent Poet Laureate --- out of respect for the position, I won’t identify the poet: All night each reedy whinny from a bird no bigger than
Pete Hamill on Bob Dylan: It begins, “In the end, the plague touched us all.” He wrote this in 1974. - It is widely argued that “Blood on the Tracks” is Bob Dylan’s best record. In some other universe, that might be an interesting conversation. In this one, making the case
Pete Townshend: Who Came First - Pete Townshend has a guru, Meher Baba. Not a Jew. And here we are, on the holiest day of the Jewish year. Why feature Pete Townshend? For the same reason
