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 […]
Don Was produced two tracks on Gov’t Mule’s Revolution Come… Revolution Go . I interviewed him about this for my Guitar World cover story, but could only use a quote or two. Here’s a bunch more. You probably know this, but Don has produced the Rolling stones, Bonnie Raitt, Van Morrison and so many other great artists. […]
I am writing this on a plane to Beijing after a completely discombobulating 24 hours, which started with wonderful news and took a sharp turn toward the very sad mid-afternoon with news of Gregg Allman’s passing. It began in the morning with an incredible turn of events: I found myself chatting with Woodie Wu, my […]