Taking It Back With Barack

A new video by Will Galison – for swing voters!

Sugarland @ Meadowbrook – Postponed

Just received this email from Chris Lockwood, Marketing Director at Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavillion.  The Sugarland show scheduled for Sunday, September 28 is postponed:
The show is re-scheduled due to Jennifer Nettles being ill.  We do not have a make-up date yet but that information will be made available soon.  Hold on to your tickets as [...]

Local Rhythms – What’s Not For Sale?

With all the Chevrolets and Cadillacs in his songs, Bruce Springsteen probably sold a lot of Detroit steel over his career.  What if it turned out GM paid him for all that product placement?
Is it an accident that the working girl in Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” takes American Express?  Did Mark Knopfler write the song [...]

VSO Makes Its First Stop In Bellows Falls 1 October

When he’d finally convinced the Vermont Symphony Orchestra to bring the annual “Made In Vermont” tour to the Bellows Falls Opera House, says Ray Massucco, “I felt like the dog chasing the car – now what am I gonna do?”
A year of back-and-forth emailing between Massucco, a lawyer and part-time concert promoter, and VSO Executive [...]

Jackson Browne – “Time The Conqueror”

Wearing sunglasses and sporting a grey beard, Jackson Browne stares out like a soft rock Unabomber from the cover of his new album, “Time The Conqueror.”  The name perhaps refers to the toll on his mind and body over 60 years.
“Time may heal all wounds, but time will steal you blind,” Browne sings on the [...]

Local Rhythms – A Genius Move

I have over 17,000 songs in my iTunes library.  Some have been played a lot, others once or twice.  Hitting “shuffle” is a great way to revisit a track that may have slipped by the first time, but it’s not very scientific.
Last week, when Apple announced an upgrade to their popular music software, I immediately [...]

Lenny Clarke – The Prince of Boston Comedy

When comedy was king, Lenny Clarke held court as the prince of Boston.
“The thing was, I was the man, because I was crazy,” says Clarke. “I was a nut job.  I had no training, no idea what I was doing.  Because of that, I blazed a trail in Boston comedy where the only rule was, [...]

Earth, Wind & Fire/Michael McDonald @ Meadowbrook

Thursday night’s show at the U.S. Cellular Meadowbrook Pavilion began on a somber note.  Following an a capella rendition of the national anthem by “New Hampshire Idol” winner Anthony Torres, Michael McDonald offered his own 9/11 tribute, a Christmas song called “Peace.”
“With all the ways the world has changed, it seems appropriate now,” he said.
Once [...]

Oneside – First, To Last

A hoedown mood opens Oneside’s new album, signaling a shift away from the country jazz permeating their earlier work.  New banjo player Chris Hersch picks out a spare figure, backed only by Ned deBary’s delicate acoustic guitar, then handclaps.  The singer begins, and a kick drum roughs up “The Letter,” the first track on the [...]

The Ownership Society?

This is the full text of an email sent to Bob Lefsetz from Larry Hoppen, former member of Orleans.  He wrote the great mid-70’s ode to marital fidelity, “Still the One”.  The song has been appropriated by many political candidates since then.  Hoppen takes issue with how the song’s been used and abused, typically without [...]