Friday night found me 20 feet from the front of the stage at Brooklyn Bowl, in Williamsburg, soaking up three hours of knock-your-socks-off playing by Robert Randolph and the Family Band. I felt like I’d been swallowed by the sun. If you’re not familiar with Randolph, I’d recommend remedying that…. Read More →
Great piece on Steve Tyler by Phil Reisman in his column today in The Journal News. Citing the Aerosmith front man’s new autobiography, Reisman goes back to Tyler’s upbringing in middle-class Yonkers – where he started his first band, got kicked out of school and laid the foundation to being,... Read More →
James Taylor constructs his songs by developing what he referred to as a series of interlocking melodic “wheels.” His first guitar was a nylon-string, classical guitar that his brother got hold of and painted blue. He really disliked his years at Milton, a boarding school outside Boston. His favorite guitars… Read More →