Blinddog Smokin’
Photos by Arnie Goodman The Bowery Electric is the last place I’d expect to find a blues band, but Carl Gustafson, who has written for Elmore Magazine, toured with … Read more
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Warren Haynes and Railroad Earth
Photos by Arnie Goodman One of my favorite guitar players, Warren Haynes always makes me look forward to his live shows, where he is at his best. This show had a … Read more
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival
I’ve attended literally hundreds of festivals, and Grey Fox continues to be one of my favorites, with a perfect combination of music, ambiance, established stars and up-and-comers and super-friendly … Read more
Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival: Take Two
What could be better than a gathering of the finest pickers in bluegrass music today, set in an idyllic Catskill mountain valley? There is no better folk event on the … Read more
Soaked In Bleach
A sensationalist retelling of a sensational story, Benjamin Statler has found look-alike actors and used recorded conversations and interviews with experts to recreate the events surrounding the death of Nirvana … Read more
Jon Pousette-Dart
One of the nearly forgotten heroes of the northeastern folk rock scene, once so prevalent in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Jon Pousette-Dart mined the same musical environs as … Read more
Boz Scaggs
My appreciation of the multi-talented Boz Scaggs began more than a dozen years ago with his horn-laden ditty “Runnin’ Blue.” At the time I was aware of Boz solely from … Read more
Simon & Garfunkel
Wow. One of the most beautiful box sets ever, Columbia has released all five of Simon & Garfunkel’s original albums (and the sixth, a Greatest Hits) on 180-gram vinyl, not … Read more
The Mekons
Throughout the history of rock n’ roll there have been “cult” bands, and then there are the Mekons. Never a hit in the U.S. or their native U.K (the band … Read more
The Bird and the Bee
The Bird and the Bee transported concertgoers to a sunny summer dream to celebrate the release of their new album, Recreational Love. Inara George (the Bird) jumped, clapped and danced … Read more
