I like Keith Richards’ take on the looseness of the beat in this Rolling Stone magazine interview: You’ve always managed to kind of screw with sounds and come up with something new, like removing the E string for a five-string guitar and popularizing open-G tuning. I tried to learn “Before They Make Me Run” once with a band, and figuring out […]
SHOUT! Remembering the Isley Brothers
Marc Myers writes for the Wall Street Journal: The Isley Brothers’ “Shout” is one of the earliest and best-known party songs. Immortalized by the frat-house dance scene in the 1978 comedy film “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Shout” was originally conceived by Ronald Isley during a 1959 concert in Philadelphia as a way to extend the […]
What’s on Your Bucket List?
“It’s not how fast you travel, it’s how far you go,” sings my friend Bob Morrison in his recently recorded song A Wheel Is A Wheel. If you live outside of Nashville, TN you may not know the name Bob Morrison, but you most certainly know his songs. He was the straw that stirred the […]
Dylan, Kooper and Bloomfield
From The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy column: “Bob Dylan’s song “Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence” was a previously unreleased cut from 1965 that first came out in 1991. Speakeasy today premieres an alternate version of the song: a deep cut of a deep cut, from the latest entry in Dylan’s ongoing “Bootleg” series.”
Remembering Erroll Garner and Concert by the Sea
Marc Myers writes at The Wall Street Journal: To commemorate the recording’s 60th anniversary, Sony is releasing the “Complete Concert by the Sea” on Sept. 18, with a new cover that features a black model, her arms raised in the pose of the white model on the original cover. The three-CD set includes the original […]
Remembering The Band
Professor Harold Bloom writes of The Band’s classic, The Weight: The song is part of what I call the American Religion, which is neither Christian nor non-Christian but a mix of things, including 17th-century Enthusiasm. No American ever really feels free unless he or she is alone, and there’s something of that solitary quality in […]
Catching up with Dion
Talking with Marc Myers from The Wall Street Journal, Dion Dimucci reveals how his parents’ fighting saved his life. My father, Pasquale, was like Tarzan, except we lived in the Bronx. He never had a real job, but he could walk a block on his hands and climb trees effortlessly. When he and my mom […]
Remembering the Beatles
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Marc Myers explains Beatlemania, writing: From a cultural standpoint, Beatlemania in 1965 far exceeded teenage rages for Frank Sinatra in the 1940s and Elvis Presley in the ’50s—thanks largely to the proliferation of television sets and portable phonographs. In the months before their appearance at Shea Stadium, the Beatles unleashed […]
RIP: Pedal-Steel Guitarist, Buddy Emmons
Pedal-steel guitar master, Buddy Emmons has passed away. NPR writes of Buddy: Country music wouldn’t sound like itself without the pedal-steel guitar, and the instrument sounds the way it does today because of Buddy Emmons, who died Wednesday in Nashville at 78. Though he might not be a household name, Emmons played on records for […]
Grateful Dead: Flashes of Magic
The Wall Street Journal’s Jim Fusilli writes of the Grateful Dead’s recent Fare Thee Well tour, that “With the highly capable Messrs. Anastasio, Chimenti and Hornsby on board, perhaps there would be flashes of magic. And there were, with surprising frequency.” He continues: Far from flawless, the band’s two sets confirmed its strengths and weaknesses: good, […]
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