It takes a lot of guts to play a cavernous arena, ignore your hits, play songs from an album that...
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For Van Morrison, first and foremost, it’s always been about the music, and finding that magic place inside the music...
The first thing that really hits you listening to David Vest’s new album, East Meets Vest is how brilliantly the...
New Orleans Jazz Fest, 2009. Photo courtesy of Dick Waterman. © Dick Waterman. For the first half of my life...
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Willie Nelson has recorded, and continues to record, so many albums at what seems like an incredible rate of speed...
Robbie Robertson Returns Review : How to Become Clairvoyant by Peter Stone Brown When Robbie Robertson finally returned to recording...
It is now almost six and a half years since Johnny Cash left the planet, and not surprisingly, he...
It was sometime in the first few months of 1970, I was living in some sixth floor walkup on...
First, a disclaimer in the interest of open journalism. Seth Rogovoy is a friend, and during the course of writing...
In June of 1963, my parents took me to a Pete Seeger concert in Lambertville, New Jersey. I’d seen Seeger...
We knew we we're in for a special night when they rolled the organ on stage. Then Bob came out...
Hard Rain : by Tim Riley Alfred A. Knopf $23 Reviewed by Peter Stone Brown Tim Riley starts this book,...
Last night Levon Helm finally brought his Ramble to Philly, playing the Electric Factory. It was Helm's second Philly appearance...
Photo copyright © 2002 John Scheele. Of all the musicians in The Band, the most interesting and intriguing is Garth...
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This article was written in December 1999, just after the author found out that Rick Danko had died. It originally...
This article was written in 1986, the night when the author found out that Richard Manuel had died. It originally...
Historian, professor and writer Sean Wilentz’ new book Bob Dylan in America is neither biography or critical assessment though it...
On Revival (Fantasy Records), John Fogerty comes to terms with and maybe even makes peace with his past. In doing...
Late last night, or more accurately early this morning doing my final email check, I noticed the headline: "James Brown...
It was sometime in 1975, and my friend Richard and I were leaving our job which happened to be...
I’m pretty sure it was in the ’80s when Reagan was president that these buttons appeared in the remains of...
Twenty years ago when I had something approximating a real job writing about music and helping to put a weekly...
The Rolling Stones introduced me to Solomon Burke when they covered his classic, “Everybody Needs Somebody To Love,” on their...
"Things should start to get interesting right about now." —Bob Dylan, "Mississippi" It’s been happening once or twice annually...
A Simple Twist of Fate might have been a more appropriate title for this book, which is essentially a biography...
Bob Dylan has been the subject of innumerable books. In this (the fifth) full-scale biography, British reporter Howard Sounes tracked...
When Robbie Robertson decided to disband The Band in 1976, it was time. Anyone who had seriously followed the...
Thirty years before T-Bone Burnett gathered a bunch of excellent musicians in a Nashville studio to re-create early country music...
John Lee Hooker’s death is tragic not so much for the loss of one of the greatest blues artists,...
Music can be a family thing. Throughout the history of popular music there have been all kinds of family...
Alt Country, Old Country and New Country: Uncle Tupelo, James Talley, Jim Lauderdale and Ralph Stanley Now way back in...
Early in 1963, two blues collectors, Tom Hoskins and Richard Spottswood, pulled into a town in Mississippi that wasn’t on...
Postcard from Tate to Peter in 2002 I can’t exactly remember when I first heard Howard Tate. Somewhere back in...
For about the past ten years, when not doing special project albums with other artists, Van Morrison seemed to be...
I was a Rick Danko fan from the first note of the first song he sang on Music From Big...
This interview was done the last week of March in 1994 at what at the time, the studio of WMMR,...
Interviews with musicians by Peter Stone Brown Recorded on October 31, 1978 at the Bijou Café, Philadelphia , PA This...
Fats Domino, by Peter Stone Brown, November 9, 1978, Palumbo’s Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA. It was impossible to escape Fats Domino’s...
October 1977, at the Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA. If you own the rights to this photo, please contact...
Interview with Professor Longhair (June 10th 1979), by Peter Stone Brown Make no mistake about it, New Orleans R&B would...
Interview with Arlo Guthrie by Peter Stone Brown, Summer of 1976, at the Temple Music Festival, Ambler, PA. (C) Mario...
George Jones Interview, August 1976, at Sunset Park, West Grove, PA, by Peter Stone Brown (c) Peter Stone Brown, 1976...
“Is there anything I would like to see or conquer?” An Interview with Muddy Waters at the Temple Music Festival,...
Levon Helm March 6, 1981 This interview took place before a show at a now gone club Emerald City, which...
(If you own the rights to this photo,please contact and we will be happy to make arrangements.) There was this...
The Life (and Death) of Dave Van Ronk By Peter Stone Brown The headline February 10 announcing Dave Van Ronk’s...
Read the article at Counter Punch The Return of Levon Helm by PETER STONE BROWN The first time most people...
Full article at Counter Punch Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball by PETER STONE BROWN In 1944, writing a script for a radio...
And the Band Played On Farewell to Levon by PETER STONE BROWN It was in the spring 47 years ago...
Ray Charles was always on the radio when I was growing up, so at first it was easy to take...
If you own the rights to this photo, please contact and we will be happy to make arrangements. Like a...
Bob Dylan returned to the Mann Music Center for the first time in 14 years for his third show at...
It started raining sometime the night before. Sometimes there was thunder. Sometimes there wasn’t. Sometimes huge torrents, loud enough to...
For whatever reason Bob Dylan’s last few shows in Atlantic City have been at the Borgata, which isn’t necessarily as...
Bob Dylan once said in an interview not too long ago something along the lines of my stuff is based...
I’m really glad I got to see the Philly show (which was added late in the game) on this tour...
Ten years ago, on this exact date, Bob Dylan played this venue, really a basketball gym at Temple University, though...
Asbury Park, New Jersey is kind of a strange place, as if it's in another zone of the universe. And...
