Cognac used to host the premiere blues festival in France, if not Europe. Sadly, now however, it seems to have largely lost its way with blues players mostly sidelined to smaller side-stages, while mega-stars rule […]
The mysteries of the ’65/’66 recordings revealed (maybe)! How deep can you go into a song? As Greil Marcus’ two recent books, The History of Rock ‘N’ Roll in Ten Songs and Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations, […]
By Michael Goldberg. Improbable as it might seem at first, Dylan has recorded an album of songs associated with Frank Sinatra – and it’s damn good. I hated Frank Sinatra. As a teenager, Sinatra, who […]
By Michael Goldberg. Bob Dylan and The Band The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11 (Six-CD set) (Columbia Records) Note: Because the Basement Tapes are, for me, about a time long past, and a […]
By Michael Goldberg. One of our best music critics is Bill Wyman, who wrote an incredible piece about Michael Jackson for the New Yorker in 2012. I’ve been reading Bill since at least the mid-’90s, and he always has […]
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