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Jackson Browne: Yeah, Yeah - Jackson Browne could have been looking into many New York windows when he wrote “I don’t know what to say about these days/ I see people changing in the strangest
Jacqueline du Pre - Her career lasted only 12 years, but if had been only half as long, she'd be considered one of the greatest cellists of the century --- her
James Brown - James Brown really was "the hardest-working man in show business." In his early 70s, he was still playing as many as 300 concert dates a year
Jann Arden - In distant 1990-something, Jann Arden had a hit. "Insensitive." You may remember it: oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home by the vagueness in your eyes your
Jason Isbell: “The Nashville Sound” - Early in 2016, I encouraged you to pay attention to Something More Than Free. It went on to win two Grammy Awards (Best Americana Album & Best American Roots Song)
Jason Isbell: “Something More Than Free” - ON SECOND THOUGHT: I was knocked out by the song and video for “24 Frames” (below), so I went to hear Jason Isbell recently. Now I’m obsessed. You can be
Jason Isbell: The best of the best - HEADLINE NEWS, OCTOBER, 2022: An English site, AUK, has just named “Southeastern,” Jason Isbell’s 2013 release, as its “Number One Americana Album of the 21st Century.” And not by a
Jennifer Berezan - “ReTurning” is one idea, 52 minutes long, not quite a loop, definitely a drone. The idea is hymnal --- a chant "returning…. to the mother of us all" --- with
Jesse Malin - A few years ago, I “discovered” Jesse Malin. More accurately, “Todd Youth,” one song by Jesse Malin. I watched the video dozens of times that summer because it so accurately
Jim White - If you'll step into the Jim White cult, you'll be in good company... but you'll see no one you recognize. An easy guarantee: Very few people know who Jim White is,
Joan Baez - “I never dared to be radical when young,” Robert Frost said, “for fear it would make me conservative when old.” Joan Baez is Exhibit A that Frost was wrong. Celebrating her 75th
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme - On December 9, 1964 tenor saxophonist John Coltrane gathered his band in a darkened studio in New Jersey to record an album that has come to be regarded
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things - Note from a reader: They used to have what was called The Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, where, for $3, you could go any Sunday afternoon and see some of the
John Prine - On January 1, 2005, Head Butler was an infant --- less than a year old. And yet, thanks to Holly Gleason, I had scored an interview with John Prine, who
John Prine: Fair and Square - A classic song doesn't belong to its creator. It's ours. We take it into our lives and use it for our purposes and sing it in the car or the
Johnny Cash: “Ain’t No Grave” - THE AMAZON LINK: There are now two ways to get to Amazon and support this site. Old: Click on the “Buy it from Amazon” link on any review and go
Josh Ritter: One Man Band - Josh Ritter The Allen Room, January 31, 2007
