Category: Music Genres

Featured | July 21, 2019

Banjo Music Amidst Native Daughters

It’s amazing what can happen when you bond supremely talented like minds, hearts and souls. When the Grammy-winning, intensely thoughtful folk roots wunderkind Rhiannon Giddens was asked by Smithsonian Folkways […]

Featured | June 20, 2019

The Forward Evolution of Eric Scott

The evolution of a musician is a tricky one. Often the story goes like this. You catch the musical bug at a young age, likely go through the high school […]

Classic Rock | May 30, 2019

David Crosby’s Glorious Renaissance

These days, David Crosby is a pretty happy guy. No, I’m serious. And that’s a big deal, especially considering Crosby’s ornery reputation (I’ve never experienced it in our chats), his […]

Classic Rock | May 30, 2019

A New Twist For The Musical Box

For the last 26 years, rabid and passionate Genesis fans, who seem to always impatiently long for some type of Genesis reunion that never happens, have had a pretty amazing […]

Americana | May 28, 2019

John McEuen’s Blissful Folk Music Life

It’s been fifty-plus years since John McEuen basically “replaced” Jackson Browne in the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the NGDB started crafting their indelible folk country rock sound, most famously […]

Featured | May 23, 2019

A.J. Croce: His Own Man

For singer/songwriter AJ Croce, being an up and coming musician and having the name Croce, in addition to looking just like his revered late father, well, that connection didn’t hurt […]

Classic Rock | May 21, 2019

Nils Lofgren’s Rocky Beautiful Fifty Years

Three years ago, a movie called Hired Gun came out. The well-told documentary highlighted the stories of some of rock and roll’s best musicians, many largely unknown to the average […]

Classic Rock | April 22, 2019

Joan Osborne: Tangled Up In Dylan

(header photo by Jeff Fasano) It’s a somewhat unique phenomenon, that moment when an artist with a voice from heaven like Joan Osborne chooses to roll an entire album of […]

Living On Music | April 17, 2019

Cancer Can Rock Handles It With Care

An accomplished music producer uses personal experience and a kind heart to give those fighting cancer a moment in the spotlight. Musicians. They can be a mighty generous lot. I […]

Featured | April 7, 2019

Jimmy Webb’s Songs For Eternity

In researching the astonishing songwriting career of the legendary Jimmy Webb, one image kept cascading through my mind. My parents. You see it was Lynn and John Houk who got […]