David Matthews Portable Bohemia

I had never heard of Fred Hersch until I happened on a piece about him in The New York Review of Books (Christopher Carroll, The Piano...

Easing into year's end with a nice rendition of an old favorite, "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" Bob Dylan and Norah Jones, "I Shall Be...

I came to Larkin Poe by way of Noble Prize economist Paul Krugman's Friday Night Music on his blog The Conscience of a Liberal, which...

I was led to Joni Mitchell this evening by Mark Ford's fine piece about her in the current issue (October 26, 2017) of The New York...

It doesn't get much better than this. #SaturdayEveningwith

Marcus Mumford, "I Was Young When I Left Home" Marcus Mumford covers Bob Dylan, "Farewell" Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic...

Josh Ritter, "Girl in the War" #SaturdayEveningwith

Bird on a Wire David Remnick, Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker, The New Yorker, October 17, 2016 #SaturdayEveningwith

My mai n man made the news this week. Newport Folk Festival 1964 #SaturdayEveningwith

Been listening to Laura Nyro. Her sweet voice soars and carries us away to a time long ago and a place far from here. And When I Die...

A few days ago I happened on a piece in The Guardian about a pair of landmark documentary films from 1976. One was Martin Scorcese's The...

Mississippi John Hurt (1893–1966) is among a number of great bluesmen who made recordings in the 1920s and '30s and afterward lived in...

My old college pal Allen Mackey turned me on to Old Crow Medicine Show some years back when he emailed a link to the "Wagon Wheel" video....

This evening NPR happened to be airing a Prairie Home Companion rerun with John Prine as a guest while I was fixing dinner. John Prine...