Music 'Nothing's Bad Luck' Zeroes In On The Life And Lasting Work Of Warren ZevonNPR - Gabino IglesiasC.M. Kushins' Nothing's Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon opens with Zevon waking up in the middle of the night, confused and scared. The narrative quickly spirals into madness from there. Soon Warren
Bob Dylan The Queens teen who inspired Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan and an entire artistic movementNew York Post - By Michael Kaplan Without Barbara Rubin, the Velvet Underground’s first album might not have ever seen the light of day. Allen Ginsberg would not have headlined …
Play buttonMusic (UK) Blue Note boss Don Was: 'Jazz can't become synonymous with pop again'The Guardian - Ammar KaliaOnly work with people you trust. If you don't respect an artist enough to lose an argument to them, you shouldn't be producing them I loved the record covers. I would ride a bus across town, going 45 just
Country Music The Nashville Man Who Used To Be A Country Star — In West Africanashvillepublicradio.org - Nicholas Phillips Sometimes, when Pierre Tra works the night shift at a nursing home in southeast Nashville, he’ll step off into a corner and record himself singing …
Music Festivals John Prine Talks 'My Kentucky Home, Goodnight' & Why He Wants To Benefit Coal Minersgrammy.com - UserName-219272-1543968659 The Recording Academy catches up with the unbreakable John Prine, who recently release a new 7" single called My Kentucky Home, Goodnight.
Leonard Cohen The Astronomical Force And Zen Cool Of Leonard Cohenforward.com - Jackson Arn The late phase of Leonard Cohen’s career began, like a lot of artistic triumphs, with the desperate need for a quick buck. In 2004, Cohen learned …
Long-form Journalism Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music MeansThe New Yorker - John Jeremiah SullivanThe roots musician is inspired by the evolving legacy of the black string band. To grasp the significance of what the twenty-first-century folksinger Rhiannon Giddens has been attempting, it is necessary
Country Music Merle Haggard’s Hymn To The Working Manudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton Merle Haggard’s reputation as the champion of the working class was further cemented on 16 May 1969. That day, he was at Capitol Records’ studios in …
Play buttonMusic Technology Make your music sound like a scratchy old record with the Vinylizer plugin | MusicRadarmusicradar.com - Ben Rogerson, Computer Music If you get a nostalgic kick out of the audio artefacts produced when you play an old vinyl record, chances are you’ll be interested in Thenatan’s new …
Ethan Hawke Ethan Hawke to Star in Louvin Brothers Biopic ‘Satan Is Real’Rolling Stone - Joseph Hudak The story of Country Music Hall of Fame duo the Louvin Brothers will be told in a new biopic starring Ethan Hawke, according to Variety. Satan Is Real, …
Grateful Dead Grateful Dead Launches ‘All The Years Live’ Video Series, Shares 1974 “Morning Dew” [Watch]liveforlivemusic.com - Sam Berenson On Thursday, the Grateful Dead unveiled their new All The Years Live video series, which is available through the band’s official YouTube page. …
1984: Remembering the time Pete Seeger asked for a ride around Syracusesyracuse.com - Louise Broach Editor’s note: Arlo Guthrie and other folk musicians will honor the legacy of the late singer-songwriter Pete Seeger at a Centennial Concert at The …
Music First Listen: Justin Townes Earle, 'The Saint Of Lost Causes'NPR - Jason HellerSinger-songwriters such as Justin Townes Earle often get pegged as being self-reflective, and it's a fair accusation. Earle himself lingered on his own confessional psyche on his last album, 2017's Kids
Headphones What Happens If You Always Wear HeadphonesThe Atlantic - Olga KhazanI own three pairs of noise-canceling headphones. Two go over my ears, enveloping them in cozy tombs of silence. One pair consists of earbuds, one of which I jam into my ear to block out the world while
African-American News The Racist History of America's Patriotic AnthemsTeen Vogue - Jameelah NasheedOG History is a Teen Vogue series where we unearth history not told through a white, cisheteropatriarchal lens. On April 19, two professional American sports teams cut ties with Kate Smith’s 1939 rendition
Music Facing Homelessness And Crushing Medical Debt, A Renowned Jazz Guitarist Reaches OutNPR - Anastasia TsioulcasOne of the jazz world's most enduring artists, the influential 87-year-old guitarist and composer Kenny Burrell, is facing financial ruin and homelessness. His plight became public after his wife, Katherine
Kickstarter Review: Unheralded duo delivers a gem from Kickstarter roughAssociated Press - By SCOTT STROUDA remarkable new album by a husband and wife duo who quit their jobs to go all-in on their music is full of elegant contradictions that somehow converge into one of the best Americana albums of the year.
Photo Editing THROUGH THE LENS: Six Roots Music Artists on the Vergenodepression.com Andrew Adkins -Woody Hawley Series – Photo by Amos Perrine Ariana Gillis – Cayamo 2019 – Photo by Boom Baker Roseanne Reid – Edinburgh 2017 – Photo by …
Play buttonMusic The Story Of Little Junior Parker’s ‘Mystery Train’udiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers In late 1953, ‘Mystery Train’ was recorded by a band led by Herman Parker. Herman better known as ‘Little Junior’ grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi …
Play buttonMusic Mojos Working: A History Of Recorded Bluesudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers We will never know who wrote the first blues song – even using the term is a misnomer. The blues developed through the complex oral tradition of …
Music Americana Awards Nominations 2019: Women Lead the WayRolling Stone - Jon Freeman Nominees for the 2009 Americana Honors & Awards were announced Tuesday afternoon, with multiple women being recognized in the top categories. The …
Play buttonMusic How Record Labels Are Selling Old Music for (Lots of) New MoneyRolling Stone - Amy X. Wang Ask someone in the music industry how to sell a new single, and you’ll get rambling answers that go on for days — but ask them how to sell a single …
Play buttonMusic The Duke Of Ellingtonudiscovermusic.com - Richard Havers Music publishers are not generally noted for their eloquence or their feelings towards the art that they represent, but Irving Mills had this to say …
Music Jackie Wilson Goes ‘Higher And Higher’udiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton Jackie Wilson’s dazzling record of 54 US Hot 100 and 49 R&B singles chart entries was not, generally, well reflected in the UK. By the last year of …
Music Jessi Colter Records New Album Produced by Margo PriceRolling Stone - Joseph Hudak Jessi Colter, the first lady of the Outlaw Country movement, has a new album on the way, one that pairs her up with a contemporary country rebel in …
New Orleans, LA The Sound of New Orleans Music: From Jazz, Rhythm & Blues to Hip Hop and Bouncetravelnoire.com After watching Girls Trip in 2017, I knew New Orleans had to be on my bucket list of cities to visit. So far, I’ve been three times and it’s become …
Play buttonMusic Time After Time: The Lasting Legacy Of Chet Bakerudiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring When the body of Chet Baker was found, crumpled and bloodied, on an Amsterdam pavement on Friday, 13 May 1988, beneath the third-floor window of the …
Bob Dylan Rick Nelson Sings Bob Dylanudiscovermusic.com - Paul Sexton What might be described as the second phase of Rick Nelson‘s career was taking shape in a recording studio on 10 May 1969, when he recorded a song …
Music (UK) Vinyl revival: is there an environmental cost to record sales?The Guardian - Kate Connolly BerlinFor an event dedicated to the vinyl revival, the setting couldn’t be more appropriate. In the mid-70s David Bowie sat in the same wood panelled room of Berlin’s Meistersaal, recording Low and Heroes. look
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