RAILROAD EARTH TAKES LONG ROAD TO SUCCESS
By Michael Lester Mandolin player John Skehan of Railroad Earth credits 1950s comedy duo Abbott and Costello — of all people — for his route to Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa., in the earl...
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BILLY SHEEHAN MAKES WINERY DOGS HIS PRIORITY
By Michael Lello Acquiring the top individuals in your field does not necessarily make for a great team. Ask the California Angels how that’s worked out this season. The same can be said in the mus...
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BRIGGS FARM BLUES FESTIVAL: ‘A LOT OF HAPPY PEOPLE’
It’s an unlikely setting for Mississippi and Chicago blues: a sprawling, 350-acre farm tucked away in Nescopeck, Pa., population 1,583. But for 16 years now, Briggs Farm has indeed been a destinatio...
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AN INTERVIEW WITH GEOFF TATE OF QUEENSRYCHE
The last time Queensryche got this much attention, “Silent Lucidity” was a radio and video staple and the progressive hard rock band was packing arenas. With an acrimonious breakup that culminated la...
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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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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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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...
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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