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Gideon King & City Blog: Fusing Rock, Jazz,...
Rock’s great guitarists have often been renaissance men; artists who allow their creative spirit to be expressed across a variety of platforms and endeavors. Jeff Beck and the late Danny...
Eddie Berman: Broken English Puts it All Together
When Van Morrison released Veedon Fleece in 1974 he introduced the world to something quite new. Fresh off his divorce from first wife Janet Rigsbee and onto a new relationship with fiancé...
Marshall Crenshaw: Songwriting Mastery Revisite...
Marshall Crenshaw’s career began in perhaps the most poetic of fashion – he played John Lennon in the Broadway musical Beatlemania. From there his career was propelled with a steady stream of...
Hollis Brown’s In the Aftermath: A New Take on...
My friend Ed and I have talked often about how the Rolling Stones have been able to tour for almost fifty years largely on the backs of four albums: Exile on...
Richrath Project 3:13: Bringing Back REO Speedw...
For some time now I’ve felt that Gary Richrath has been largely overlooked by the rock guitar universe for the contributions he made to modern music. As a founding member...
The Case of the Return of NRBQ
I first caught “the Q” in college on a whim. It was a last-minute thing in 1987 and my buddy Matt who was from Hartford was a rabid fan. He...
Joe Grushecky: Still Rocking the House
Pittsburgh’s own Joe Grushecky is one of the most genuine, authentic artists in rock and roll. He is also arguably the most honest. Grushecky first became known in the late...
Al Staehely: Spirit and the Letter of the Law
In rock and roll you always take the wins where you find them. Al Staehely is the only person who has both played Carnegie Hall and provided legal services for...
Dar Williams: Writing Songs That Matter
The folk community is quite a bit like the jazz world. You earn respect over time and across a strong body of work. For Dar Williams, the path from debut...
Joshua Radin, The Ghost And The Wall: No Bounda...
Singer-songwriter Joshua Radin has recently released “Goodbye,” a single from his new record The Ghost And The Wall, which came out on July 23. This gold-selling singer-songwriter’s ninth studio album explores the...
The Immediate Family: Studio Legends, Together ...
Back in the 1980s when I was a teenager, I spent countless nights with headphones on, playing the music of artists like Jackson Browne, James Taylor, and Warren Zevon. While...
The Allman Brothers and the Making of the 50th ...
When Jaimoe, one of the last surviving original members of the Allman Brothers Band reached out to his former bandmates early last year, no one could possibly have imagined how...
The Montreux Years: Documenting The Legendary J...
The Montreux Jazz Festival has been home to some of modern music’s most memorable live performances. Across its fifty-year history, what has really set the festival apart has been its commitment to...
Marc Ribler: Musical Director and Solo Artist E...
The late Joe Guercio was the musical director and conductor for Elvis Presley from the summer of 1970 until the summer of 1977 when Elvis made his last concert appearance....
Will Van Dyke: From Broadway to Solo Breakout
For my money, Ted Lasso is the best show on television today. Starring former Saturday Night Live cast member and staff writer Jason Sudeikis, it tells the story of a successful college football coach...
Stephen Duffy: Flying Beyond Duran Duran With t...
“Rock royalty” is perhaps an overused term these days. But there are those who have applied their creative hand to so many pieces of music over time that it’s impossible...
Heart’s Ann Wilson: Wandering Through the Wonder
For a musical genre known to favor male vocalists, there are few men or women who have made the kind of impact that Ann Wilson has on rock n roll. As co-founder...
Deko Entertainment: Moving Rock's Legacy Forward
When Gene Simmons of the band KISS said that “Rock is dead” in 2014, it sent shock waves throughout the industry. He later clarified his comments by saying that new...
Eric Clapton and The Lady in the Balcony
In 1992, when Eric Clapton recorded an episode of MTV Unplugged at Bray Studios in London, the series featuring artists playing acoustic instruments was already well into its third season, having started...
Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man, A World-Class Keyb...
Rock and roll documentaries have become fairly predictable. Over the past year alone I think I must have watched about two dozen. They tend to follow a formula, and if...
Deep Purple: Making Vibrant Music in 2021
Deep Purple is a band with very little left to prove. With more than 100 million records sold and a history that spans over fifty years, this is a band...
Jorma Kaukonen: Playing Fur Peace
Jorma Kaukonen has been wowing live audiences for decades with his remarkable guitar skills and his unique take on American roots music, blues, Americana, and of course rock and roll....
Bob Welch’s French Kiss: Sentimental Favorite
I resisted moving from the LP format to CD for as long as I possibly could. Beyond my thought that the general sound quality of CDs paled in comparison to...
The X Factor: Richard X. Heyman
I discovered Richard X. Heyman by chance, really. Upon release, the cover of his 1988 debut album Living Room just kind of caught my eye as I was browsing through a record...