Author Archive
06 Jan 2024
Take Five: Keith Emerson
Classically trained pianist Keith Emerson is best known for the boundary-pushing progressive rock he made with Greg Lake and Carl Palmer as ELP. But Emerson – who left us in […]
05 Jan 2024
Boxed Set Review: Syd Barrett – The Solo Works of Syd Barrett
The life and music of Syd Barrett have long fascinated music buffs. The founder of Pink Floyd, Barrett was its leader, primary songwriter and public face. But less than a […]
04 Jan 2024
Golden Rules: Greg Golden and a Life with Guitars
The Greg Golden Band recently released their latest album, Storyteller, Vol. 1. The band’s specialty is melodic hard rock featuring guitarist Golden and singer/multi-instrumentalist Joe Retta. The group has played […]
03 Jan 2024
Christmas with the Celts: Modern Meets Traditional
There’s a strong cultural connection between Appalachian folk music and the traditional music of the Celts. That helps account for the enormous appeal in and around the mountains for musical […]
02 Jan 2024
Preview: Music Movie Monday – Immediate Family
In the early 1970s music scene of Southern California, you couldn’t get a better bunch of players than the four musicians who wold come to be known collectively as The […]
01 Jan 2024
30 Days Out, Jan. 2024 #1: Listeso String Quartet, Jackson Stokes, PAKT, Jiji
Happy New Year! The NYE holiday notwithstanding, we’re happily entering the relatively quiet period in Asheville when fewer tourists come ‘round. Happily, touring musical acts are back on the road […]
31 Dec 2023
Musoscribe’s Most Popular
Perhaps remarkably, a look at the stats for blog.musoscribe.com shows that the most popular (as in, most-read) stories this past year are things I wrote years – sometimes many years […]
30 Dec 2023
Album Review: After Ours – Music for Cats
One of the inescapable realities of being a music critic is that one only has the opportunity to cover that which one hears. And so – despite the most valiant […]
29 Dec 2023
Album Review: Collective Soul – 7even Year Itch
Atlanta-based rock band Collective Soul rose to prominence in the early ‘90s with the breakout success of their debut album, Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid. Against the backdrop of […]
28 Dec 2023
The Beatles, Bootlegs, Artificial Intelligence and ‘Rockin’ Roxburgh’
I’m a lifelong Beatles fan. I discovered Meet the Beatles in my parents’ otherwise kinda-square record collection and was knocked out. That would have been in the late ‘60s, right […]