Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion
Steely Dan: The band that was too cool for touring, too cool for the Grammys, too cool for the Rolling Stones, and too cool for Top 40 hits. They placed … Read more
Posted in June, 2018
Roots of Creation
Instead of scrawling a barely coherent mash note on wrinkled rolling papers to an iconic band they truly worship, Roots of Creation fashions a joyous, blissful love letter to the … Read more
Lamont Dozier
In the summer of ’64, I was just 17 and putting in many a hard day’s night in a Top 40 bar band on Long Island, when I developed a … Read more
Kelly Willis at The Loft at City Winery
Photos by Debra L. Rothenberg There aren’t many performers who can go over a decade without releasing a solo album and not lose their fan base. At Tuesday’s show at the … Read more
Blind Lemon Pledge
If the name Blind Lemon Pledge sounds like an old joke, that’s because it is. Comedian/musician/actor Martin Mull, used it forty-some years ago on one of his parodies. However … Read more
Jerry Vivino
Every so often Jerry Vivino likes to step away from his late night TV role in Conan O’Brien’s band to make a jazz album. While Jerry is lesser known than … Read more
An interview with Ana Egge
With her new album, White Tiger, dropping, Ana Egge is keen to talk about her latest project. Another release that shines with her usual clear, sweet voice and laid-back guitar picking … Read more
Ana Egge
Ana Egge’s tenth release again features her sweet vocal delivery and an assured grasp of acoustic guitar picking, at times in the style of Mississippi John Hurt, though, in … Read more
Tom Chapin and Friends
“I still hear that old-time music,” Tom Chapin nonchalantly sings in the early going of At the Turning Point, and he and his comrades spend a charmingly simple hour celebrating … Read more
Reverend Freakchild
Reverend Freakchild barrels his way through a number of related genres, but who wouldn’t, with the firepower he has gathered on this album? Guys who’ve recorded with Bob Dylan, Joe … Read more
