Happy New Year, Happy Songs
|Happy New Year! Wishing you health, wealth (why not?), peace and…yes, happiness to you and yours for 2018. And with that, a happy return of our 20 List: 20 Happy … Read more
Happy New Year! Wishing you health, wealth (why not?), peace and…yes, happiness to you and yours for 2018. And with that, a happy return of our 20 List: 20 Happy … Read more
Carry You On, singer-songwriter Marcus Goldhaber’s latest album, was designed to bridge the gap between civilians and military vets. Goldhaber has performed at veterans-related events for the last five years, during … Read more
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn have released the follow-up album to their debut, Echo in the Valley. This time around, the mission was to take their double banjo combination of … Read more
Two-time Blues Music Award winner and remarkable vocalist John Nemeth fronts the Love Light Orchestra, a group of the best Memphis has to offer. Bobby “Blue” Bland and his longtime … Read more
The three-man Animal Years band originated in Baltimore, but made headway in New York through dint of old-fashioned hard work and talent. The band tours relentlessly. Animal Years’ singer-songwriter-guitarist Mike … Read more
Nine months after their first blockbuster release, the eponymous The Doors, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek released a second record that once again rocked the prevailing foundations of … Read more
James Hunter has certainly paid his dues. Over the span of 30 years, he has worked on the railway, busked in the streets of London, played clubs and theatres all … Read more
The minstrel life must agree with Tokyo Rosenthal, because he just keeps getting better. Like the minstrel’s roving lifestyle, Rosenthal’s music ranges a bit over the map here, too, though … Read more
Longevity has to count for something in rock ‘n roll. To survive two decades in a meat grinder of a business and still have a smile on your face—as irrepressible … Read more
This is the debut solo album from Russian-born, now Los Angeles based harmonicist Ilya Portnov, who studied in the U.S. at the New England Conservatory, the first person accepted with … Read more