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Bluegrass on the Belvedere: R&R RePast
I’m a rock & roll lifer. I got stories, lots of stories. Here’s another. Bluegrass music is not rock & roll. Though it’s certainly a part of it. Elvis Presley’s first release had Father of...
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Ellen McIlwaine: Rock & Roll Repast
I’m a Rock & Roll lifer. I got stories. Lots of stories. Here’s another. As is my tendency before I hit the hay, I was culling the interweb the other night, searching for some tuneage that would...
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Dread Zeppelin: Rock & Roll RePast
I’m a rock & roll lifer. I got stories. Lots of stories. Here’s another. At its most astute, satire not only makes fun of the subject it is skewing, but it does so with a reverence and...
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Richard Thompson: Rock & Roll Repast
I’m a rock and roll lifer. I got stories, lots of stories. Here’s another. There was one thing that struck me immediately the first time I heard Richard Thompson live. Which came in the 90s, well after...
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Rock & Roll RePast: Beach Boys
I’m a rock & roll lifer. I got stories. Lots of stories. Here’s another. Noticing that the Beach Boys — or so as now constituted they would call themselves — are playing a number of festivals this...
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Birds of Chicago: Rock & Roll Repast
I’m a rock & roll lifer. I got stories, lots of stories. Here’s another: There are many wondrous happenstances that can come when going to a concert. One is learning the full effect of a performer...
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JazzFest ’24: First Weekend +
I’m a lifelong rock & roller. I love JazzFest. Here’s my latest report. But first a quick explanation why this is so late. And thanks to those loyal readers who have actually reached out and...
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The Delta: Rock & Roll RePast
I’m a rock & roll lifer. I got stories, lots of stories. Here’s another. It is the sense of the place. More so than the righteous music I’ve heard there on several trips down. The Delta. Birthplace...
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Paul Simon: Rock & Roll Repast
I’m a rock & roll lifer. I got stories, lots of stories. Here’s another. Out of respect, I have been reluctant to engage artists of note on the few occasions through the decades when I’ve been in...
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Desperado/ Desperados Waiting For A Train: R&R Rewind
I am a desperado. One who has for all the bounty I’ve enjoyed in life been somewhat desperate of soul. An outlaw of sorts once upon a time. Just as a descriptor, it is a sonorous word, with which I’ve...
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R&R Repast: Oldies Double Double
I’m ever fascinated by how music is used in film. How it is an integral part of the most immersive of art forms. And there are two specific instances where movies allowed me to rediscover what are...
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The Highwomen: Rock & Roll Rewind
Back when, you know, in the day, there would be more than occasional Saturdays that arrived without evening plans. So, they began at the record store. Karma. ear x-Tacy. Looking for somebody to flirt...
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The Dylan Flick
A new film has just dropped, another attempt to pin down the unpindownable. It’s about Bob Dylan. The early years. It’s called “A Complete Unknown” and stars Timothée Chalamet, who it is said spent a...
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Snow Day R&R: Ghost Riders in the Sky
One song. Two moments. One that actually happened and was pretty special. The other a dream denied. The song: Ghost Riders in the Sky. It’s just one of those tunes that’s lingered around, maleable,...
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“A Complete Unknown”: My Belated Take
As I vowed in my initial post providing reasons why I, a Bob Dylan acolyte since he crashed onto the scene in the early 60s, wasn’t a premier day viewer of the Dylan flick, I watched it a couple days...
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JF ’25: Exit To Mystery Street
It is that time of the year when I attempt annually to wring a drop or two of blood from the turnip. When, as JazzFest sits just over the horizon, I attempt to regale you with some tales I haven’t...
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In Praise of Little Feat
In the nature of rock & roll acknowledgment, it is a mistake, an egregious omission of the highest order. A travesty. For those like me obsessed with such matters, it is difficult to swallow. Thus,...
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