The 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards draws nigh. That famous night that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences put on the most glitzy industry trade show. Though Americana and roots music comes to mind…
Ask someone on the street what America stands for and you’ll probably get a different answer from each one. America has a complicated history, as does any combination of human beings, but one thing is…
He didn’t write many of the songs he made legendary but when he did them they stayed done.You couldn’t imagine them any other way. On this occasion of his birth I submit to you my…
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RollinStone.com posted this great clip from Ain’t in It for My Health , Jacob Hatley’s documentary on the musical legend. The film will premiere in upstate New York on April 19th, near his famous barn…
It says something special about an artist when the legendary Levon Helm plays drums on your previous recordings and you’ve been asked to Helm’s famous Midnight Rambles in Woodstock, NY, 6 different times. Bow Thayer…
I’m a huge of of Upstate New York’s Felice Brothers. I always suspected that Big Pink molecules must still dwell in the area and were breathed in by the band as infants leading them to…
The famed Midnight Ramble will roll into L.A. on Sunday night as Elton John** and Mumford & Sons appear on the Grammy stage to lead a tribute to the late music great Levon Helm, The…
The 2010 documentary Ain’t In It For My Health: A Film About Levon Helm, will be released in movie theaters nationwide for the first time next year. The film follows longtime Band singer and drummer,…
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After attending hundreds of concerts there are very few shows occurring these days that I wish I had attended. This is one of them. Gregg Allman, Jakob Dylan, Bruce Hornsby, Mavis Staples, John Prine, Joan…
It was another night when the disciples of roots music congregated within the hallowed walls of the Mother Church of Country Music, and the Ryman Auditorium, to homage to that which ties us together and…