. . . listening to Allison Moorer and Steve Earle, Jon Levanthal and Rosanne Cash, and Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams sing songs about love, longing and happiness, at the Rubin Museum of Art on December 8th. Highlights: Larry and Tersea singing “If I Had My Way,” Allison singing a song about Alabama, and the …
(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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Searching for Sugar Man, a documentary by Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul, is an unbelievably uplifting film. It tells the story of Sixto Rodriquez, a man who lives in Detroit, who was a singer-songwriter of some promise forty years ago. He made two albums that received excellent reviews, but which did no business in the USA. …
Madonna bared her breast during a concert in Turkey the other day, and the world did not pause in its orbit. The most shocking thing about the moment is that one of the era’s most successful purveyors of shock played what had always been an ace, and most of the world went ho-hum. Since her …
The Royal Philharmonic, accompanied by the Royal College of Music Chamber Choir, really brought it for the musical finale of the Diamond Jubilee Flotilla. I tell you, those girls can sing in my boat anytime. Sorry for the lousy production value, a lamentably shorter but much sharper version can be found here on the BBC …
Led by a great band of musicians headed by guitarists Larry Campbell and Jimmy Iovine, the funeral procession that took Levon Helm to his final rest paraded through Woodstock, where Helm had long made his home.