From the archives and just dug out. I wrote this article for Guitar World in 2002. Enjoy. Joyful Noise (Columbia) is Derek Trucks’ third album but the first that he could bear to listen to by the time it was released. “My first two albums were pretty good but they didn’t seem to represent what we […]
I’ve been really enjoying a new book, The Allman Brothers Band Classic Memorabilia, 1969-76. The topic is pretty much right in the title. The book highlights individual collectibles, including band instruments and equipment, t-shirts, apparel and merchandise, autographs, bookkeeping documents, passes, posters, tickets, programs, promotional items, vintage photographs, and more. Duane’s Galadrielle Allman wrote the introduction. […]
This is a press release — not my words or thoughts! I just thought my people would want the info. On January 29th, 2016 Tedeschi Trucks Band, led by the husband-and-wife team of singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitar virtuoso Derek Trucks, will cap an extraordinary and transformative year with the release of Let Me Get […]
Today would have been Hubert Sumlin’s 84th birthday. The great guitarist passed away on December 4, 2011 at age 80. He was one of my favorite guitarists- and also one of the all time great guys, as I learned when I interviewed him for Guitar World in 1994. Before I ventured uptown to a Manhattan club to interview […]
Live Audio and Video Stream below, as well as great photos from my friends jay and Derek. You know about out my Ebook, Reckoning: Conversations with the Grateful Dead — right? Interviews with Phil, Bob, Trey, Hunter, Billy, Warren and more. Costs less than your coffee. Order it now. VIDEO STREAM — Thanks for the tunes, Amex. <br /> […]
Hey, you, check out my Ebook, Reckoning: Conversations with the Grateful Dead. Some thoughts on Dead & Co. at the Garden. “The wheel is turning & you can’t slow down You can’t let go and you can’t hold on, You can’t go back and you can’t stand still, If the thunder don’t get you then the lightning […]
On this day (October 20) in 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s twin engine plane crashed in a swamp in Gillsburg, Miss., killing three of the band members — singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and singer Cassie Gaines — assistant manager Dean Kilpatrick and both pilots on impact. Twenty other people survived with various injuries, some very severe. […]
Today is Bob Weir’s 68th birthday. Happy birthday Bob. This interview appears in my Ebook, Reckoning: Conversations With the Grateful Dead, along with similarly extensive interview with Phil, Phil and Trey, Robert Hunter, Bill Kreutzmann, Warren Haynes, Mark Karan and Steve Kimock. It costs less than a latte. Check it out! A couple of notes: I […]
I wrote this article for Relix magazine. I like Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers quite a bit and Loved Wild Lost is a terrific album. “Ultimately, I’m doing this for myself,” Nicki Bluhm explains shortly before the release of her second album with The Gramblers, Loved Wild Lost, “because I love what I’m doing. I’m grateful that we […]