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Val Brown: Hitting 'Rock' Bottom

Source: The Huffington Post

My Name is Val and I'm a rock-star-memoir addict. It all started with Philip Norman's seminal biography of The Beatles, Shout . I was on a years-long break between sophomore and junior year of college and had just left my job as a record company receptio ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post  More like this  2 days ago, 1:48pm CDT

With a Little Love, and Some Tenderness

Source: Slate

Darius Rucker performs onstage during 2013 Stagecoach: California's Country Music Festival on April 28 in Indio, Calif. This may come as a surprise to you, but I don’t typically think much about Hootie ...
Full article at: Slate  More like this  3 days ago, 12:25pm CDT

Live Video: Steve Earle

Source: The KEXP Blog

Musician, songwriter, author, actor, producer... in whatever he does, country rock living legend Steve Earle is uncompromisingly in his art and an outspoken critic of what’s wrong in our country. On his many albu ...
Full article at: The KEXP Blog  More like this  May 16 2013, 10:43am CDT

Ellis Paul Live Performance

Source: James V. Brown Library

Nationally known singer- songwriter Ellis Paul will perform a special free family show on Saturday, June 8 at 1 PM in the Moltz Rotunda Reading Room. Since emerging from the Boston music scene, Ellis Paul’s music has been consistent ...
Full article at: James V. Brown Library  More like this  May 16 2013, 10:16am CDT

Primal Scream – More Light review – a real return to form

Source: Brandish

Simon Poulter of What Would David Bowie Do? salutes the barnstorming return to form that is Primal Scream’s new album More Light These are bleak and desperate times, people. We know this because we keep being told they are. As if ...
Full article at: Brandish  More like this  May 16 2013, 9:32am CDT

Derek Allan’s diary – April 1 to April 28

Source: Northumberland Gazette

It is April and I have toured some of Switzerland in the snow and cold then Texas in the sun and the heat, so hot I could not take a deep breath. When flying home seeing the Easter snow was not something I was exp ...
Full article at: Northumberland Gazette  More like this  May 16 2013, 4:46am CDT

Letters

Source: London Review of Books

In Karl Miller’s comments and the compendium of snippets about Margaret Thatcher, one of the most important aspects of her ministry goes unmentioned (LRB, 25 April). It was her onslaught on local councils, thro ...
Full article at: London Review of Books  More like this  May 15 2013, 7:23am CDT

Arlo Guthrie to sing songs of father Woody at Dogwood Fine Arts Festival

Source: MLive.com

DOWAGIAC, MI -- Arlo Guthrie played to a packed audience at Dowagiac's Dogwood Fine Arts Festival in 2008. He's coming back, and he's bringing the songs of his father with him. He did "In Times Like These," a 2007 song inspired by the Katrin ...
Full article at: MLive.com  More like this  May 14 2013, 1:38pm CDT

How Peter Worthington Affects Today’s Trucking

Source: Todays Trucking

I am not 100-percent certain but I am pretty confident that I have never in all my years on this planet been so very far off the mark as I was when, before meeting him, I prejudged Peter Worthington. He had been a s ...
Full article at: Todays Trucking  More like this  May 14 2013, 12:38pm CDT

Review & Photos: Jim James @ The Fillmore, 5/12/13

Source: The Bay Bridged

On Sunday night, May 12, Jim James floated onto the Fillmore stage looking like he had just been electrocuted. His mess of hair and beard frizzed wildly in every direction and his crazy-eyed stare poured into ...
Full article at: The Bay Bridged  More like this  May 14 2013, 11:40am CDT



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