(from newyorker.com) Leave it to Lucinda Williams, whose astringent lyrics have proven her capable of leaving no romantic notion unexamined, to ask the question of the hour. Sitting backstage at the Izod Center, in East Rutherford, before doing her turn at “Love for Levon,” the all-star tribute concert for Levon Helm, who died last April …
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Meeting the media before the Love for Levon concert. Counter-clockwise from above: Allan Toussaint; My Morning Jacket; Dierks Bentley; the Clown Prince of Rock Joe Walsh, and the Dowager Princess; Ray LaMontagne; David Bromberg schmoozes, Johns Hiatt and Prine Fuse News; Lucinda Williams is fascinated by me; the great Garth Hudson.
Rehearsing the finale at the Love for Levon concert. Above, from left: John Hiatt, John Prine, Grace Potter, Roger Waters, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams. Below left: John Mayer, Amy Helm, Teresa Williams, Larry Campbell. Below right: Gregg Allman, Bruce Hornsby, Warren Haynes and Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket Above: Dierks …
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I sent a good part of a glorious day in Woodstock, reporting an article about the upcoming Levon Helm tribute concert. I got some great interviews with Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Levon’s rather groovy manager Barbara O’Brien, and the estimable Don Was, and got to listen in on some amazing rehearsals. Above, Byron Issacs, Teresa …
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This photo was taken on August 5, 1977, in the San Francisco offices of Rolling Stone on the last closing night (issue No. 247) before the magazine relocated to New York. From left to right: Virginia Team, Susan Vermazen, Susan Hemphill, Wendy Stahl, unidentified, Nancy Butkus, Mary Shanahan. I don’t know any of these people …
In the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan, the paradigm of unintentional hilarity, writes a furrowed brow analysis of Mitt Romney‘s inadequacies. “Here’s one tough, cool-eyed report on what is happening in the presidential race,” Noonan writes. “It’s from veteran Republican pollster, now corporate strategist, Steve Lombardo of Edelman public relations in Washington. Mr. Lombardo worked …
In the wake of Mitt Romney‘s problems this week with remarks that he made at a fundraising dinner in May, Bloomberg ran an article about another swell dinner that doomed a Republican presidential candidate in 1884. According to an article by Richard John of the Columbia Journalism School, in October of that year, the GOP …
. . .but, really, I want to win. Turns out the profile of Deadspin founder Will Leitch that I wrote for Illinois magazine has caused the magazine to be nominated for an Eddie. Yeah! Until this happened, I’m not positive that I knew what an Eddie was, but as it turns out, it’s an award …
On this, the 150th anniversary of the battle of Antietam, which, thank God, has not yet been replaced as the bloodiest day in American history, please allow me to recommend a new history of the battle, Richard Slotkin‘s The Long Road to Antietam. As the title suggests, the book is about much more than the …
As someone who spent a good part of the eighties arguing how such manifestly incomplete candidates like Carter, Mondale and Dukakis could–yes, truly, absolutely could–fill the inside straights that would take them to the White House, I sympathize with the excruciating efforts of those Republican loyalists who are trying to convince people, most importantly themselves, …