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IN THE KEY OF LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS: THE MAN & HIS MUSIC

John Kruth·February 24, 2022

Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982) played, sang and lived by his own rules. When a sideman once asked him what key they were playing in, he proclaimed, “the key of Lightnin’ Hopkins!” A protégé of Blind Lemon Jefferson at age...

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KINK FOR A DAY & OTHER ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ADVENTURES OF BRIAN STANLEY

JP Olsen·February 23, 2022

Brian Stanley with Bill Wyman backstage after opening for the Stones with Garland Jeffreys at Hartford Civic...1981. Photo courtesy of Michael Halsband

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THE DRONGOS: FROM THE CALM OF NEW ZEALAND TO THE STREETS OF NEW YORK

Mike Cobb·February 22, 2022

Stranded in the States after a tour with a New Zealand theater troupe, drummer Stan Mitchell and his mates made the best of things, settling in for the long haul. First stop was San Francisco, where as Red Alert they...

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‘THE SINGER’S LABORER’: BARRY REYNOLDS ON WORKING WITH MARIANNE FAITHFULL, GRACE JONES & OTHERS

Valerie Simadis·February 21, 2022

Songwriter and musician Barry Reynolds has lived an itinerant life. By age 15, in the mid-1960s, he’d left his Lancashire home and was gigging in Hamburg, then with the London bands Pacific Drift and Blodwyn Pig (with Jethro Tull’s Mick...

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GREG IRONS: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST

Benito Vila·February 17, 2022

Greg Irons sampled every conceivable creative outlet the 1960s counterculture had to offer—first as a rock musician in Philadelphia (The Candymen), then as a Bay Area rock poster artist (Bill Graham and others), then underground comix (Last Gasp, Print Mint),...

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BUNNY YEAGER: MIAMI PINUP QUEEN BROKE DOWN BARRIERS

Sandra Hale Schulman·February 16, 2022

Bunny Yeager, a Miami model and photographer, is best known for working with Bettie Page to transition out of New York’s fetish pinup underworld and letting her shine as a naturally beautiful woman. But Yeager’s archive, recently purchased and explored...

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SPOTIFY AND OTHER STREAMING DELIGHTS: MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE OR SAME AS THE OLD BOSS?

Paul Bisbort·February 15, 2022

By Paul Bisbort and Alan Bisbort With Spotify in the crosshairs following Neil Young’s exodus from the music streaming service over the disinformation the site’s podcasts are enabling, it may be time to look at how we receive, buy and...

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LEE MILLER: THE PHOTOGRAPHER OUT ON A LIMB

Ingrid Marie Jensen·February 14, 2022

Lee Miller (1907-1977), from Poughkeepsie, led a full and adventurous life. Conde Nast sought her out as a model, Picasso painted her portrait, Jean Cocteau filmed her, Man Ray was enticed into teaching her photography, Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington...

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THE SKY DON’T HAVE NO ROOF: THE LAST ORNETTE COLEMAN INTERVIEW

John Kruth·February 10, 2022

Ornette Coleman (1930-2015), undoubtedly a great musician and composer who freed jazz from nearly all constrictions, was also a homespun philosopher. In the times he spent talking and playing with Coleman, John Kruth came to that latter conclusion. He also...

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KENNETH FEARING: NYC’S ORIGINAL ‘DRUNKEN POET’

Alan Bisbort·February 9, 2022

Kenneth Fearing, “the drunken poet,” was a rising star among the Greenwich Village bohos in the 1920s, his forlorn presence a model for ‘starving artists’ for three different novelists and as subject for one of Alice Neel’s greatest portrait paintings...

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BOOGALOO DOWN BROADWAY: WHEN FANIA RECORDS FUSED SOUL MUSIC WITH LATIN RHYTHMS AND MELODIES

Richie Unterberger·February 8, 2022

Fania Records is mostly known as a superpower of salsa, issuing records by some of salsa’s biggest names, including Rubén Blades, Celia Cruz, Willie Colón, and the Fania All-Stars. Yet between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s, the label tapped into what...

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MY DAD IS DEAD: IMPECCABLE POST-PUNK ANGST STRAIGHT OUTTA CLEVELAND

Jordan Mamone·February 7, 2022

Cleveland native Mark Edwards threw down a startling gauntlet of bare bones words/music in 1986 called …And He’s Not Gonna Take It Anymore. Even more striking was the name the 23-year-old took for his one-man band—My Dad Is Dead—reflecting his...

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ON THE WAY TO PARADISE: MY TRAVELS WITH JOHN PRINE

John Kruth·February 3, 2022

John Prine hit the ground running with his debut album in 1971, a seamless masterpiece of what seemed like an entirely new genre of music—rocking folk country…what would become known perhaps as “Americana.” Every song on that album was an...

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TED JOANS: GOING FAR BEYOND ‘RENT-A-BEATNIK”

Alan Bisbort·February 2, 2022

Poet, musician, artist and avowed “surrealist” Ted Joans was, along with LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka), one of the few people of color associated with the Beat Generation. But, like Baraka, Ted Joans had much more going for him than...

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Jack Kerouac based his muse/lover “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans on Alene Lee, a mixed race (Black/Cherokee) bohemian writer and intellectual who was a part of the NYC Beat circle of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Lucien Carr. Despite her intimate connection to these writers, the real Alene Lee is nowhere to be found in most accounts and biographies—partly due to her own reticence to speak. Erika Blair did some digging and presents a more rounded portrait of this fascinating woman. Read more!

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