It was that breakout appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1979 that first introduced the world to Rickie Lee Jones. She performed “Chuck E’s in Love” and “Coolsville” from the self titled debut release that later won her the Grammy for Best New Artist. That was followed up with the successful and critically acclaimed...
Last year must have been the year of the cover tune. Leading the pack of recordings devoted to the cover concept was Herbie Hancock and his star studded The Imagine Project. Herbie skillfully drove his crew of John Legend, Jeff Beck, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Pink, Seal and more through songs like “Imagine” and...
We recently ran a post about jazz singer Theo Bleckmann and his colorful renderings of the incomparable Kate Bush songbook [This Woman’s (& Man’s) Work]. As it often happens around here, once we get on something that really piques our interest, we just can’t let it go. We contacted Theo and asked him to...
We recently posted the slammin’ video of famed producer/musician Daniel Lanois’ newest supergroup Black Dub. Not only did their music instantly grab our attention, but the video itself was pretty remarkable. Our resident podcast king had met the guy behind the camera Adam Vollick during a shoot a couple years back for jazz drummer...
If you’ve ever belted out the chorus I can’t live if living is without you. I can’t live, I can’t give anymore, (and really, who hasn’t?) then you owe it to yourself to watch the documentary (now out on DVD) Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?). It’s the fascinating...
Seeing Peter Frampton on last week’s Oprah only further cemented his status of rock icon. Not like we had any doubts but he seems to wear the moniker well. The ease of his presence stole the show and it was more like a watch and learn lesson of what legendary really looks like. I...