rawk Archive
10 Nov 2014
November Hundred-word Reviews, Part 1
Once again, it’s time for a run of hundred-word reviews. My inbox has been overflowing of late, and even after removing the material that I deem not worth my time […]
06 Nov 2014
New Crest on an Old Wave: The Dave Mason Interview (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: This current tour [coming to Asheville’s Orange Peel on Nov. 8] is billed as Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam. From what I’ve read, it seems […]
05 Nov 2014
New Crest on an Old Wave: The Dave Mason Interview (Part One)
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Dave Mason was born in Worcester England, halfway between London and Liverpool. A few years younger even than The Beatles‘ George Harrison, Mason came up in […]
04 Nov 2014
Big Star Lives! with “Live in Memphis” (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… As Jon Auer pointed out in metaphor form during our conversation, speaking of Big Star in a slightly different context, “You can write the greatest letter […]
03 Nov 2014
Big Star Lives! with “Live in Memphis” (Part 1)
The story of Big Star – a band once so obscure, only critics, musicians and a small handful of in-the-know fans even knew of their brief existence – has now […]
31 Oct 2014
Album Review: Gramercy Arms — The Seasons of Love
As a rule, I make it a point to avoid reading reviews of an album before writing a review of my own. I don’t want my opinion formed by the […]
27 Oct 2014
DVD Review: Ian Anderson – Thick As A Brick Live in Iceland
In 2012, Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson mounted a tour to promote his latest solo album, Thick As a Brick 2: What Ever Happened to Gerald Bostock? The tour and […]
21 Oct 2014
Jason D. Williams: A Mixing Bowl Combined With a Sponge (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… By 1993, as the first signing of the reactivated Sun Records, Jason D. Williams released Wild. Sessions for that disc took place in the storied studio […]
20 Oct 2014
Jason D. Williams: A Mixing Bowl Combined With a Sponge (Part One)
Though his in-the-grand-tradition bio sheet asserts that Jason D. Williams first played a piano at age three, when I ask him about it, he concedes that his serious interest in […]
17 Oct 2014
Album Review: Halloween Nuggets
Halloween’s coming: October 31 is a mere two weeks away. Personally, it’s my favorite holiday: for several years I lived on one of my city’s busiest residential streets, the go-to […]