Posted May 28, 2020 at 8:47 pm | No comments
“This is not the album I’d planned to do this year!” protests McCutcheon. Following his last release, To Everyone In All the World: a Celebration of Pete Seeger, in honor of the folk icon’s 100th birthday, he had stockpiled over 30 new songs as a pool for a new album of McCutcheon originals. “But that pesky virus kind of put a kink in the notion of gathering a bunch of my pals and going into a windowless recording studio for days on end. I mean I love these folks, but…”
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Posted May 25, 2020 at 9:22 pm | No comments
In early 1969 Bob Dylan called and asked me to take a picture for the back of his new album, Nashville Skyline. He had the front cover already picked out—a picture of the skyline of Nashville, where he had recorded the album.One afternoon, I went over to his place. As we left the house, he grabbed a hat, and asked, “Do you think we could use this?” I had no idea if it would be good or not, so I told him “Take it, and we’ll see.”
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Posted May 18, 2020 at 8:33 am | No comments
Legendary singer-songwriter, Dion has a new album, Blues With Friends, featuring 13 tracks with special guests including Billy Gibbons, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Beck, Paul Simon, Joe Bonamassa, Van Morrison, Brian Setzer, Sonny Landreth, Joe Louis Walker, Samantha Fish, Stevie Van Zandt and many more
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Posted March 27, 2020 at 2:41 pm | No comments
AXS TV announced today that the eighth season of its critically-acclaimed celebrity sit-down series The Big Interview With Dan Rather will premiere with chart-topping rock legend Huey Lewis on Wednesday, April 15 at 8 pm. ET/ 5 p.m. PT.
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Posted February 29, 2020 at 10:53 am | No comments
I have launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance my new book, Contacting the Band. It will feature selected contact sheets of the photos I took of The Band in the late Sixties for their first two albums, Music From Big Pink and The Band. It will allow fans of The Band a unique, behind-the-scenes look at the process and frame by frame progression of these landmark photo shoots
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Posted February 13, 2020 at 9:54 am | No comments
Ana Popovic has announced the initial sixty confirmed appearances she’ll make this year across The United States and Europe as she celebrates her 20th anniversary. There will be dozens of additional performances announced as they are confirmed in the coming weeks.
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Posted February 4, 2020 at 5:04 am | No comments
Is it really fifty years ago that Bruce Cockburn’s first album came out? Indeed it is. His eponymous titled album, which included “Going to the Country” and “Musical Friends,” was released on April 7, 1970. Coincidently, it was also the first album released by True North records.
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Posted August 5, 2019 at 9:42 am | No comments
Guitar International magazine’s publisher, Rick Landers, ventured back into performing and songwriting recently. Since his early days playing in a downriver Detroit garage band, to basking in the streets of Georgetown and small D.C. clubs, he’s been writing songs and stashing them away for no other reason than to play them as the spirit moved him.
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Posted May 3, 2019 at 1:57 pm | No comments
The Great Hudson River Revival (The Clearwater Festival) is celebrating Pete Seeger 100th birthday today by offering 20% off ticketing for its annual event, returning to Croton-On-Hudson, New York on June 15-16. To cash in on this birthday gift, enter coupon code “Pete100” at https://clearwaterfestival.org (valid through 5/15).
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Posted January 10, 2019 at 10:04 am | No comments
The Pete Seeger tribute album for McCutcheon has been a long time coming. The renowned multi-instrumentalist was eleven years old when his mother insisted he watch with her the news reports from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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