BY THE BOOK: AN INTERVIEW WITH BLUESMAN ROY BOOK BINDER
Roy Book Binder learned blues guitar at the foot of the Rev. Gary Davis. He ran in Greenwich Village circles with the likes of Dave Van Ronk, and he learned songs from one of his heroes Pink Anderson...
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FACES OF THE BLUES THROUGH THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S LENSE
PR_belfour Robert "Wolfman" Belfour at Red's Juke Joint in Clarksdale, Miss. (Photo by Jim Gavenus) Five years ago, photographer Jim Gavenus ...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLER WILLIAMS
Keller Williams is known as the one-man band extraordinaire of the jam-band world. But that doesn’t make him a one-trick pony. This spring and summer alone, he’s not only taking his acclaimed solo sho...
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DOWNLOAD NEW TEDESCHI TRUCKS TRACK
Tedeschi Trucks Band will release its third album, “Made Up Mind,” on Aug. 20, and below you can stream and download one of its songs, “Part of Me." [soundcloud params="auto_play=false&show_comme...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH CHEAP TIME
Tennessee punk/glam/garage (and you could probably add a few more slashes and adjectives) group Cheap Time are currently on tour with Social Distortion, but on Wednesday – an “off day” – the group wil...
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ALBUM REVIEW: JIMMY EAT WORLD — “DAMAGE”
Seven albums into its career, Jimmy Eat World has developed a formula: driving rhythms, with occasional syncopation; crystalline, clanging guitars; and impassioned lyrics and vocals that frequently r...
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TOM KEIFER AT BREW’S BROTHERS WEST
LUZERNE, Pa. – Anyone that assumed Tom Keifer is simply living on his past successes would’ve been proved gravely wrong if they turned up at Brews Brothers West Sunday night, where the Cinderella sing...
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TOM KEIFER FINDS HIS VOICE
In an era when it seems like anyone can record and release an album almost instantaneously, it’s no longer an occasion every time a new record hits the shelves. But in the case of Tom Keifer’s “The W...
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND — “MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY”
When Vampire Weekend burst onto the scene with its self-titled debut in 2008, the wise bet was that the band wouldn’t be able to top or equal that breathtaking effort. But here we are, five years and...
ReadmoreAN INTERVEIW WITH CAROLINE SMITH
Emerging from the Minneapolis music scene, Caroline Smith quickly found an audience with a quavering and soulful singing style that has drawn comparisons to Joanna Newsom and Leslie Feist. With her b...
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