Last night, I saw Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney at the Columbus Theater in Providence. This was my first indoor show since the pandemic began. There was a vaccination requirement and a masking
Another week, another major musical death to note here. This time, it’s Don Everly, the remaining half of The Everly Brothers. I don’t have as much to say about Everly as I did last week a
Obviously, the big news of the week is the death of Nanci Griffith. I’ve never been the biggest fan, though I certainly like some of her songs. In fact, I was investing in some archival album pi
One last point about the Newport Folk Festival, which is its forward looking vision of younger artists. When Randy Newman played, he got great amusement about being old. He played “I’m Dea
This was a couple of weeks with a bunch of notable deaths in the music world, so I guess let’s honor the departed to get started. We lost the great fiddler Byron Berline last week, at the age of
Been quite awhile since I did one of these posts! I’m not sure why, but there’s a whole bunch of Sun Ra stories appearing. Here’s a nice little profile of the great one in The New Yo
Van, Van is a used up man: Legendary singer-songwriter Van Morrison released a new song on streaming platforms Thursday whose title espouses a classic antisemitic trope. The lyrics of the song, “The
I watched the entirety of Otis Redding’s Monterey Pop performance this week, as filmed by D.A. Pennebaker. It was great. There were so many artists who died young in the late 60s and early 70s,