Its title aside (which suggests that Hoagy Carmichael was some distant forerunner of Jackson Browne or Dar Williams, a case that would be both difficult and a little absurd to make), there’s no doubt that First of the Singer Songwriters: Key Cuts 1924-1946, a four-disc, 101-track collection from English reissue label JSP, is carefully and [...]
There's something unique about this everything that has passed, but yet to come sound from My Cousin, The Emperor. After landing 7th in IOTY09, and impressing even members of the contest winners Fortune & Spirts, I'm left with my last review of IOTY09, and the latest release of these Brooklyn, NY natives (formerly known as The Populists). Before I go any further, it should be said that the downloads...
Jeez Louise, enough already. I haven't heard this much whining since the Rose Bowl ran out of chicken fingers at the post-game media spread. I nearly died of embarrassment for my industry when those two guys from the Metroplex went to the floor wrestling over the last lukewarm Miller Lite. I'm guessing they were both TCU graduates, but I can't remember because I was in the back of the room hugging...
When consumerism spends itself to death and the arteries of fashion are clogged with cheap, disposable and boring designs, it’s time to rediscover one-of-a-kind relics from bygone fashion eras.
Thanks to a couple of days off in exchange for three nights of evening parent conferences last week, and a one day exchange for Veteran’s Day (we worked it), we’re off the whole week of Thanksgiving. Anne and I took advantage and hit the road, heading for Brooklyn to celebrate the iconic bird with family. It [...]
"There’s an art to staying in love," Jackson Browne told the audience on Tuesday at Carr Performing Arts Centre. For Browne, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and poet laureate of lovely, lovelorn ballads, art is often embedded in...
As both the precocious bard and poet laureate of the Laurel Canyon elite, Jackson Browne created a late-'60s/early-'70s repertoire that found him standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the other notables of the day. Alongside peers such as Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young...
"I thought of all the empty miles ... And the years that I've spent looking for your eyes." --> Jackson Browne Jackson Browne's third album... "Late For The Sky" (1974)...is filled with layers and layers of emotional watercolors. Like a surgeon, Browne exacts just the right words and tones for each song. And his dead-on observations of our feeble attempts at controlling the dice...
Though only moderately appreciated in the UK, in America John Mayer is a kind of all-purpose one-man media industry, combining a highly successful music career with sidelines in design, journalism and clothing, whilst becoming a gossip-column fixture through his relationships with such as Jessica Simpson and, most recently, Jennifer Aniston.
CBC : Neil Young will be feted with a star-studded concert during the upcoming Grammy Awards weekend, organizers announced this week…Fellow Canadian k.d. lang and peers like Emmylou Harris and Crosby, Stills & Nash will be among the artists set to perform at the tribute gala for Young slated to take place in Los Angeles on Jan. 29…Other performers lined up include James Taylor, Jackson...
Given the headlines of late, it's rather obvious that there is no better time to honor Neil Young than right now. The folks behind the 2010 MusiCare’s Person of the Year gala apparently thought so too.
"You love the thunder / and you love the rain." Sorry that y'all are having to dig out from the deluge of Tropical Storm Ida, Durham. I'm in the Sunshine State today -- enjoying the high-seventies and sunshine in the part of the Panhandle that didn't get deluged. I can't help you much if you like the rainy weather. But if you like Jackson Browne -- who sang about thunder and rain in one of...
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The Red Hot Chili Peppers will make their first post-hiatus appearance early next year when the funky monks join a lineup of all-star acts that will pay tribute to Neil Young . The concert for Young, which honors the rock legend as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year , will take place in Los Angeles on Jan. 29. Aside from the Chili Peppers, who are currently...