Peter Cooper has been a downright blessing to the Nashville musical community. From his newspaper days at The Tennessean through his current tenure at the Country Music Hall of Fame, he has always been someone whose views on all types of music has mattered to me. But, thankfully there is also a musical side to […]
After getting my first real job in the late 70s, I finally bought a turntable. This major lifestyle change had me finally start buying records again instead of 8-Tracks for the car. One of the first LPs I bought was Steely Dan’s Katy Lied. I think for about a year, I played that record every […]
I have always considered The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz to be one of pop/rock’s all-time greatest vocalists. Whether sitting behind the drum kit or standing center stage, Micky has always been a consistently great singer with a strong, smooth, steady voice. Seeing him perform a solo show at age 72 at Nashville’s City Winery, I still […]
Nashville’s Bill Lloyd is regarded as a noted maker of great power pop music and has released a solid catalog of solo records to prove it. He is also held in high regard as leader and founding member of Music City classic album re-creators, The Long Players. About once a month, you can hear Bill, […]
Of all the musicians that have found their way to live here in Music City, few have as many incredible tales to tell as Walter Egan. Starting out in teenage bands like Long Island’s The Malibooz, Egan later had a successful solo career in the 70s under the tutelage and friendship of the folks in […]
I dumbfoundedly missed the obvious message in the naming of the band for this solo tour by Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen. Dubbing this collection of fine young players the “Nightflyers” was clearly meant as a preview that Fagen’s set would feature four of the eight songs from his 1982 solo debut album, The Nightfly. He […]
One of the most exciting recent musical transplants to Nashville is British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock. With a career dating back to psychedelic-folksters The Soft Boys in the 70s, Hitchcock began a solo career in 1981 that has since produced 21 long players including his most recent self-titled album on Yep Rec Records that he recorded […]
In 1980, I left my home in New Jersey for a new life in Texas. Following my heart and leaving the exciting New York City music scene behind, I was surprised to learn that I had moved near another city that was a hotbed for some of the best music to come out of the […]
Bill DeMain is certainly no stranger to the Nashville music community. As a musician and songwriter, along with Molly Felder, their band Swan Dive created some of the best pop music ever to come out of Music City while in the process achieving major stardom in Japan and Korea. He is also a Grammy-nominated music […]
After seeing a mind-blowing performance by Mike Peters and The Alarm in London this past May, there was no way I was going to miss them here in Music City. Of course, I could not help but wonder how Peters would transform his high-energy show to the much smaller City Winery stage in front of […]
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