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Young's Greatest Hits undoubtably will cement his status in the singer-songwriter Hall of Fame.
Is it really possible to connect the dots between Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Kerry and George Bush?
The first night of the Bridge School Benefit concerts in Mountain View, CA on Saturday wowed the crowd with nearly 8 hours of All-Star music for a worthy cause.
Crazy Horse's bass player, Billy Talbot has gone solo and released the CD Alive In The Spirit World. Talbot is most familiar in Neil Young's backing band Crazy Horse where he plays bass guitar.
Bruce Palmer, bassist for the Buffalo Springfield, has died of a heart attack at age 58. "There's not a person who listened to the Buffalo Springfield that wasn't drawn to the way he played bass," said bandmate Richie Furay. "He made the music move — Bruce was truly a musician's musician. I consider it a privilege to have played with him in such a creative time in my life."
A provocative article from the Dallas Morning News on how alt-country became musical roadkill. Some interesting observations by the genre busting Alejandro Escovedo and Old 97's guitarist Ken Bethea.
While much is known about James' "Super Freak" period, relatively little is known about the period during the 1960's when he formed a band known as the Mynah Birds with Neil Young, Goldie McJohn (later of Steppenwolf) and Bruce Palmer (later of Buffalo Springfield). The name of the band Mynah Birds was apparently a takeoff of the well known folk-rock band The Byrds.
A very fascinating article in today's washingtonpost.com on the origins of the haunting shortwave radio effects used on Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album.
Jay Farrar's new album Stone, Steel & Bright Lights reveals the continuing evolution of his songwriting and performance style as he outgrows the "alt.country" label.
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