Bonnie Raitt is the Fairy Godmother of songwriters, turning dreams into reality one song at a time. And last Saturday night at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium her magical powers were on full display.
An essay on facing the end, by songwriter and artist Eric Lowen who died of Lou Gehrig’s Disease on March 23, 2012.
Ever since the first commercial movies flickered onto screens in the early 1900s, composers have been bringing the audience right in the scene with the characters.
Excerpts from a 1994 interview with Sheryl Crow as she was just starting out on a storied career with the release of Tuesday Night Music Club.
Every once in a while an artist like Sarah McLachlan comes along who not only creates great and lasting music, but also great and lasting change. It’s the kind of change that happens with an inordinate amount of personal investment, sacrifice, good will and the ability to lead.
With the exception of Bob Dylan, no other artist has so successfully fused a poet’s sensibility to rock’s visceral energy than Patti Smith.
One of the first rules for a novelist is to write what you know, and Scott Alarik knows folk music better than anyone.
In 1983 Paul Simon released Hearts and Bones that included “René and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War,” a gem of a song that many fans will agree is one of the best Simon has ever written.
It’s easy to see the profound influence the great blues players had on Bonnie Raitt, who to this day carries with her an unmatched soulfulness in all aspects of her life.
—By Lydia Hutchinson When the times were a-changin’, Tom Paxton was there. A true pioneer of the 1960s folk movement, Tom sang regularly at Greenwich Village’s infamous Gaslight Club, and helped blaze the trail for a whole generation of singer-songwriters while...
Peter Collins was the man behind the boards for records by such diverse artists as Queensryche, Indigo Girls, Brian Setzer and Nanci Griffith.
Old friends Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis’ dream of The Musician’s Village to get their hometown of New Orleans back on its feet after Hurricane Katrina.
