In honor of Jerry Garcia’s 75th birthday, I present this extensive, exclusive article on the Watkins Glen Summer Jam, at the time the largest concert ever. What an event. This story ran in a Grateful Dead one shot I wrote and edited for Parade along with the great GD historian Blair Jackson. We did great […]
This is an excerpt of my first book, Big in China. Signed copies are available directly from me here, where you can also learn a lot more about the book. It is also available in Kindle right here or as an Audiobook narrated by me here. A little background first: Occupied with settling down and helping my three kids, aged 2, […]
The surprising secret at the heart of Gregg Allman’s blues-rock music: He was really a folkie soul singer. I wrote this personal reminiscence of Gregg Allman for Billboard. Re-posted here exactly as it ran. The news of Gregg Allman’s death got me listening to his music on repeat. In that regard, today isn’t much different […]
Last year I profiled Eric Krasno for Relix magazine. Here’s the story. Amazing how much good music Eric has been in the middle of. He’s paying tribute to Gregg Allman and the Allman Brothers Band with Scott Sharrard and others this week at Irving Plaza. Trying to keep up with Eric Krasno for a single […]
Rather unexpectedly, Jaimoe is the last of the original Allman Brothers Band members still performing regularly. Just looking at that sentence is so sad that I can’t even dwell on it, so let’s get positive: his Jasssz Band is terrific and Jai himself is playing his ass off. Last night they played their monthly residency […]
Looking forward to seeing Dead & Company again tomorrow (Saturday 6/24), even at CitiField. In honor, my interview with John Mayer about playing with Bob, from last year when I wrote a Guitar World cover story on Bob. How would you describe Bob’s guitar style? Bob’s approach to guitar playing is sort of like Bill […]