At the age of 71 the boy from Hibbing, Minnesota has just released his 35th studio album entitled ‘Tempest’. This comes to the listening public some 50 years on from the release of his self-titled ‘Bob Dylan’ debut. In a remarkable run of great albums in his twilight years the lyrical wizard once again delivers [...]
Buddy Miller’s – The Majestic Silver Strings
Buddy Miller is a legend of American music collaborating and enhancing the magical work of Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle and many others over a lengthy and colourful career. A musical everyman as player, songwriter and producer. He is a unique talent and character. This release marks Buddy taking an overdue [...]
The Big Beat Scene-years on
They always say that youth is wasted on the young. Not always, as this timely re-issue of a teenage memoir shows. This paperback tells the story of the birth of beat music, and the first flowering of British pop that led to the golden age of The Beatles. At the age of eighteen author Royston [...]
Lyle Lovett Natural Forces
Although I’ve always been associated with country music my musical tastes are eclectic and over the years as a musician I’ve played in rock, pop, folk, country and trad jazz bands. As I’ve often mentioned before the possibility is that country music is the one and only genre that envelops all genres in one package. [...]