Author Archive
13 Jul 2012
CD Review: Buddy Guy – The Definitive Buddy Guy
It’s often dangerous to make generalizations, yet sometimes doing so is an effective method to put things in context. With that caveat, I suggest that among some of the giants […]
12 Jul 2012
DVD Review: Little Richard – Live at the Toronto Peace Festival 1969
In retrospect, one shouldn’t have any right to expect a show-stopping performance from Little Richard in 1969. He was more than a decade past the apex of his career and […]
11 Jul 2012
A Conversation with Little Willie John Biographer Susan Whitall, Part Two
Continued from Part One Bill Kopp: To your knowledge are there any live recordings – legitimate or otherwise – of Little Willie John performing onstage? Susan Whitall: Wow, that’s a […]
10 Jul 2012
A Conversation with Little Willie John Biographer Susan Whitall, Part One
Little Willie John had a string of hits in the late 1950s and early 60s; in some ways he was one of the first “crossover” artists, enjoying hits on both […]
09 Jul 2012
Get Me to the Copyright Lawyer On Time
From 2002 to mid 2005 I led a band called The Echoes of Tyme. Our concept – most all of my bands have what’s known as “high concept” – was […]
06 Jul 2012
It Was 55 Years Ago Today…
Sure, it’s a tired conversational device to say, “Wow, it’s hard to believe it’s been X years since Y happened.” But when it’s true, it’s true. In today’s case, X […]
05 Jul 2012
Concert Review: Delicate Steve
A lot of what passes these days for new and cutting-edge (i.e. “indie”) music has among its hallmarks a breathy, somewhat emasculated vibe. As I like to say, it Does. […]
05 Jul 2012
Concert Review: Yellow Ostrich
If you’re the sort of person who sits around pondering odd musical juxtapositions, one of the unlikely combinations you might dream up could be: What would it sound like if […]
04 Jul 2012
Still Trimmed and Burning: A Talk with Hot Tuna’s Jorma Kaukonen (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two Bill Kopp: As far as new material – and, I guess, specific to the original songs on Hot Tuna‘s Steady As She Goes — do you […]
03 Jul 2012
Still Trimmed and Burning: A Talk with Hot Tuna’s Jorma Kaukonen (Part 2)
Continued from Part One Bill Kopp: When Jack [Casady] and I spoke several months ago, we discussed some of the very early Hot Tuna recordings, and he commented that – […]