Bobo Dylan offered a stripped-down rendition of Richard Thompson’s “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” during a show at Clarkston, Michigan.

Christopher Cross, because he had so much success in such a small window of time in the early 1980s, has a caught-in-time sound — one that remains, even on this expansive live document, redolent of a specific moment. You May Also Like: Catherine Sikora and Ethan Winogrand – ‘Things ToRead More

Bruce Cockburn, in a moment of serendipity, is beginning another tour today even as a documentary about his celebrated 2008 solo jaunt is finding its way to DVD. You May Also Like: Why Randy Newman Got So Angry About an Episode of Dick Cavett’s Show

It’s a truism that our society pays homage to the sham psychotic, while sweeping the genuinely mentally ill under the rug. You May Also Like: Australian Crawl – ‘Sirocco’ (1981): Forgotten Series

For more than two decades, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Phil Angotti has been making people smile, hum and dance to his melodic marvels. You May Also Like: Bill Lloyd – Feeling the Elephant (1987): Forgotten Series

This set represents an often-overlooked period, and one of intense experimentation, for Steve Earle — who couldn’t have been further removed (personally or professionally) from his earliest triumphs You May Also Like: No related posts.

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Scarlet Rivera was an American violinist, plying her trade in relative obscurity, when Bob Dylan tabbed her to take part in the sessions for what would become his 1976 album Desire. You May Also Like: Pre-Fame Bob Dylan Struck a Rebel’s Pose, But Not Woody Guthrie’s Bob Dylan, Nov. 2,Read More

Ryan Michael Galloway’s All Dressed Up returns us to the underrated 1970s musical milieu, a period when folk- and country-inflected rock stars dug deep into their own emotional wellspring You May Also Like: How the Isley Brothers Made Seals and Crofts’ ‘Summer Breeze’ Their Own How ‘Crosby Stills and Nash’Read More

Missing longtime member Tom Pittman, but none of the knee-slapping fun, the Austin Lounge Lizards’ fizzy Home and Deranged takes on such typically topical subjects as airport patdowns, big-ego music stars, fat-cat bankers and government conspiracy theories. You May Also Like: Tom Shotton – ‘Forever Home’ (2021) Ed Roth –Read More