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Photographs by Arnie Goodman Richard Thompson performed at the Free Wednesday concert series that will brighten up every Hump Day in Woodbridge through September. Promoter Bill Brandenburg packed the Woodbridge … Read more
The Rubinoos had the run of the place, with minimal adult supervision. Entering CBS Studios on Folsom Street in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 1976, the day after Jimmy Carter … Read more
I only knew of Rod Picott because he wrote and worked with Slaid Cleaves, but that was enough to pique my interest. Wood, Steel, Dust, & Dreams is a collection … Read more
If there ever was a book that epitomizes the good, bad, and ugly aspects of the burgeoning music business in the ’60s South, it’s Howard Grimes’ memoir, TIMEKEEPER, My Life … Read more
Someone toyed with Beau Roberson’s emotions and broke him, leaving Pilgrim’s songwriting captain a rudderless shell of himself in the wounded “Out of Touch.” Stylish and starry-eyed, lost in its … Read more
Robbie Mangiardi grew up in the New York City metropolitan area with eight brothers and sisters. He didn’t pick up the guitar and start writing until college, and though he … Read more
The Minus Five gets the closest, I think, to the sound of classic NRBQ here. The rickety, anything goes rock ‘n roll spirit of the Q shines like an old, … Read more
As a kid, Lisa St. Lou sacrificed her own needs for the wants and needs of her mom and dad, and later her husband and kids. Only when she sang … Read more
Cassandra Kubinski thinks of her songs and signature piano-centric pop sound as part of the Butterfly Effect: they affect listeners, and those listeners pass the result on in a ripple … Read more
The “best in show” award goes to Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters for the rollicking concert LP Live from the Blue Moon, recorded at the 50th annual Oregon Country Fair. … Read more
