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Uncategorized | August 11, 2014

TRIGGER HIPPY: LIFE AFTER THE CROWES

Is there life after The Black Crowes? Steve Gorman’s superb new band proves that there sure is.   By Steve Houk So what do you do for an encore after you play drums […]

Uncategorized | August 8, 2014

Steve Hackett’s Genesis Revisited

The late 60’s-early 70’s, it was a time of explosive and profound musical experimentation. The Beatles were leading the charge into “progressive” rock music and would inspire many of their peers to […]

Uncategorized | March 24, 2014

Bruce Cockburn: Music From The Cosmos

Talking to the brilliant Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn, you get the standard share of chit chat about what he’s up to, when we might get a long awaited new record (he’ll […]

Uncategorized | January 17, 2014

HUMBLY CARRYING THE ROCK AND ROLL TORCH

Rock music’s current guitar master Derek Trucks triumphs with his new band while paying homage to those who came before. By Steve Houk I want to be Derek Trucks. I mean, […]

Uncategorized | September 19, 2013

HE’S OURS, BUT HE’S THEIRS TOO

By Steve Houk Bruce Springsteen, to his very deepest core, is wholly American. Raised in New Jersey and brought up writing his miraculous songs nestled in the bosom of the […]

Uncategorized | August 5, 2013

AND YES AND I

Dateline Wilton Connecticut. Around 1975 or 6. They were one of those bands that if you heard them at a party, or maybe driving around in the car, they’d make […]

Uncategorized | June 6, 2013

KINDRED ROCK SPIRITS UNITE

If you ask Warren Haynes, one of rock and roll’s most respected, talented and hard working rock guitarists, who his true muse is, well, I gather he would mention a variety […]

Uncategorized | October 15, 2012

THE PERFECT CONCERT IS STILL POSSIBLE by Steve Houk

At the ripe old age of 51 and with hundreds and hundreds of rock concerts under my belt, you’d think that me seeing another ‘perfect’ concert would be pretty unlikely […]