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therealeasyed.com - Easy Ed
Hank Williams and Townes Van Zandt I didn’t plan to submit a column on this topic, but then again I rarely know what will spill out of my slightly …
Manhattan
A blockbuster rock exhibition is coming to the Met
timeout.com - By Tim Lowery
Hello, Upper East Side! To toast the greatest genre of music—that’s rock & roll, of course—the Metropolitan Museum of Art will turn it up to 11, …
Los Angeles
Hippie heaven
Curbed - Hadley Meares
In the 1960s, artists like Carole King, “Mama” Cass Elliot, and Joni Mitchell found space in Laurel Canyon to form their own counterculture family and create their own kind of music It was summer 1968
Music
Hear Townes Van Zandt’s Previously Unreleased Song ‘All I Need’
Rolling Stone - Ryan Reed
Townes Van Zandt sings about a quest for freedom on the folky “All I Need,” a previously unreleased song from an upcoming posthumous collection, Sky …
Beyond “Rumble”: Talking with John O’Connor About the Other Link Wray
longreads.com - Aaron Gilbreath
Most stories about guitarist Link Wray focus on his 1958 radio hit “Rumble,” a vaguely menacing, instrumental rock song that had no predecessor. They …
Boston University
Music Legend Joan Baez Wants More Artists To Be Activists — But Only If They Actually Follow Through
Bustle - Shannon Carlin
Joan Baez has always been more than a singer. The Grammy-nominated folk legend, who turned 78 earlier this month, is also a social activist, and as …
Classic Rock
Patty Griffin Announces New LP With Robert Plant Collaboration
ultimateclassicrock.com - Corey Irwin
Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin will release her eponymous new album on March 8, her first new music since 2015. The LP marks the 10th studio album of …
The Last Waltz
Rolling Stone - Jim Miller
Almost two years ago, the Band called it quits. They also called in a cast of friends and movie director Martin Scorsese to film a farewell concert. …
Culture
Keeping A Famous Theater's Myth Alive In 'Showtime At the Apollo'
NPR - Etelka Lehoczky
Thinking about the Apollo Theater, the legendary Harlem institution at the center of Ted Fox and James Otis Smith's new graphic novel, I remembered a plate of stew. It was in Sammy Davis, Jr.'s 1965 autobiography
A Conversation with Sam Bush and Alison Krauss
Garden & Gun Magazine - Dacey Orr Sivewright
Two bluegrass icons look into the genre’s future—and reflect on the artists who paved the way When Sam Bush started winning fiddle contests as a teenager in the 1960s, bluegrass musicians fit a certain
Music
Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising
Rolling Stone - Amy X. Wang
In 2018, Best Buy decided to stop selling CDs, with the change partly brought on by record labels’ increasing reluctance to even issue them. Both …
Music (UK)
Richard Thompson: “I’m usually trying to think forwards”
uncut.co.uk - Tom Pinnock
Folk-rock's guitar hero on Fairport, Trump and 13 Rivers Originally published in Uncut’s October 2018 issue To Hampstead, then, where RICHARD THOMPSON …
Music
Mississippi Fred McDowell – His Ain’t No Delta Blues
udiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers
Mississippi Fred McDowell was no Delta blues singer, his were North Mississippi blues because he came from the Hill country near Roseville, Tennessee. …
Music
Ryan Adams Details ‘Big Colors’ Tracklist, Reveals Cover Art
udiscovermusic.com - Tim Peacock
Ryan Adams has revealed details of his new album Big Colors. As uDiscover Music previously reported, the highly prolific US singer-songwriter announced …
Music
Howlin’ Wolf In 20 Songs
udiscovermusic.com - Ian McCann
He howled like a hungry wolf, though on many of the best Howlin’ Wolf songs his voice sounded like a roar from a very edgy bear. Born on 10 June …
Music
The Rhythm & The Blues: A Salute To Jerry Wexler
udiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton
Plenty of record executives like to think they have changed the shape of popular music in one way or another. Jerry Wexler, born on 10 January 1917, …
Offbeat News
An Amazing Three Part History of the Most Influential Guitarists Between the Years of 1929 and 1989
laughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn
Musician and music essayist Rick Beato put together an amazing series about the world’s most influential guitarists. Because the subject was so big …
Music
John Hartford’s Rare Recordings Assembled on New ‘Backroads, Rivers and Memories’
Rolling Stone - Stephen L. Betts
Legendary songwriter and musician John Hartford, who came into millions of homes each week playing banjo on the highly rated Glen Campbell Goodtime …
Wu-Tang Clan
How one designer created the “look” of jazz
Vox - Estelle Caswell
Blue Note Records created the visual identity of modern jazz. What does modern jazz look like? For a lot of music fans, the visual identity of jazz has become synonymous with a single record label that
Music
Clydie King, Unsung Backup Singer for Ray Charles and Bob Dylan, Dead at 75
Rolling Stone - David Browne
Clydie King, whose earthy, gospel-rooted voice was heard on dozens of rock classics, including the Rolling Stones’ “Tumbling Dice” and Lynyrd …
Music
Flashback: Earl Scruggs and the Byrds Sing Bob Dylan’s ‘You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere’
Rolling Stone - Stephen L. Betts
When Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs took the Ryman Auditorium stage with Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys for their first appearance together on …
Music
The Long Ryders announce first new LP in over 30 years (listen to "Greenville")
brooklynvegan.com - By Bill Pearis
L.A. band The Long Ryders, who were part of the mid-’80s “Paisley Underground” scene and foresaw the alt-country movement that was to kick in in the …
Music
Martin Scorsese making new Bob Dylan "Rolling Thunder" doc for Netflix
brooklynvegan.com - By BrooklynVegan Staff
Martin Scorsese, who directed great 2005 Bob Dylan documentary No Direction Home, is reteaming with Bob for a Netflix doc about the legendary 1975-76 …
Albums
Easy Ed's Guide to Cover Songs, Tribute Albums, and Compilations
nodepression.com - Easy Ed
In my previous life as a sales and marketing weasel that began in the early ’70s and came to an end about ten years ago, I worked for a number of …
Texas
Gary Clark Jr.’s New Music Video, “This Land,” Is a Furious, Beautiful Statement
texasmonthly.com - Dan Solomon
Gary Clark Jr. is fed up. That’s the first takeaway from his new single, “This Land,” which dropped with a music video on Thursday morning. The song …
Documentaries
Easy Ed's Guide to Roots Music Videos
therealeasyed.com - Easy Ed
Alan Lomax filming American Patchworks Hardly a day goes by when I’m not visiting YouTube multiple times, and it’s usually to search for music-related …
Music
Inside Josh Ritter’s New Album Collaboration With Jason Isbell
Rolling Stone - Brittney McKenna
It’s a rainy November evening in Nashville and Josh Ritter and Jason Isbell are huddled in front of the console at Sound Emporium Studios, an …
Music
Folk Supergroup Our Native Daughters Release Simmering New Song ‘Quasheba, Quasheba’
Rolling Stone - Jonathan Bernstein
Our Native Daughters, the new roots music supergroup featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell, and Leyla McCalla, have released the …
Music
reDiscover The Beach Boys’ ‘Holland’
udiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton
There are many albums on which the Beach Boys underlined that they were an immensely creative collective, and far from being entirely reliant on the …
Music
Sam Cooke’s Shaken Fans Give Him A Posthumous Hit
udiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton
The sudden, shocking and needless death of Sam Cooke in December 1964 deprived the world of music of one of its true originals. Countless fans of …