Steve Hall, a venture capital tech investor and amateur musician, combined his two interests during quarantine and, unexpectedly, became famous. Growing up steeped in the Pacific Northwest grunge scene, Hall … Read more
In Words and Music Into the Future: a Songwriting Treatise and Manifesto, songwriter Michael Koppy states what you may have thought but never dared to say, or perhaps what you … Read more
For fans of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton’s Cream, here’s a taste of New Orleans blues that will rock your socks off. Heavy on the beat (thanks to drummer … Read more
There was a chance Brad Brooks wasn’t going to live to make God Save the City, but the Bay Area rocker beat throat cancer, escaping death with his expressive voice … Read more
It’s always a true pleasure to catch a new, fresh release featuring roots master Dirk Powell. Never a slouch or a single-genre sort of guy, Powell is invariably interesting, purposeful … Read more
On May 9, 2020, Little Richard passed from this Earth, hopefully causing a huge ruckus in Rock & Roll Heaven, where he rightly takes his place. As one of the … Read more
Photos by Laura Carbone Check one off my bucket list: To see blues performed live at the Mother Church of Country Music in Nashville, aka Music City. Even in the … Read more
All the world’s woes evaporate into gritty, gleeful, and gripping melody the instant Kim Wilson starts performing these blues. Wilson formed The Fabulous Thunderbirds with guitarist Jimmie Vaughan (the late … Read more
This Pine Needle Fire smokes, snaps, and sparkles on the energy of everyday realities, and the enormous talents of a man and his superb band. Georgia son Randall Bramblett was … Read more
Blue on Blue is an unexpected pleasure, an 11-track album rich in swirling sensuality and a sultry feel that seems strangely at odds with the principal instrument here, a ukulele. … Read more
