Rufus Wainwright: Blessed By Life
by Steve Houk livingonmusic.com “I just stepped out of the ocean to talk to you. I live…a blessed existence.” In many ways, Rufus Wainwright does live a blessed existence. He is a highly regarded and thoughtfully...
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The Timeless Existence of Tony Bennett
In the past ten or so years, Tony Bennett has sold over ten million records. Yes, that Tony Bennett. And yes, ten million records. By Steve Houk livingonmusic.com Now considering this happened while he was in his...
The Mavericks: 30 Years In The Melting Pot
By Steve Houk livingonmusic.com The first thing The Mavericks‘ co-founder and drummer Paul Deakin told me when we hooked up to discuss the band’s 30th anniversary of making music was that he and his band had just...
A.J. Croce: His Own Man
By Steve Houk livinonmusic.com For singer/songwriter AJ Croce, being an up and coming musician and having the name Croce, in addition to looking just like his revered late father, well, that connection didn’t hurt...
Music Notes: Nils Lofgren’s Rocky Beautiful Fifty Years
By Steve Houk livingonmusic.com Three years ago, a movie called “Hired Gun” came out. The well-told documentary highlighted the stories of some of rock and roll’s best musicians, many largely unknown to the average...
Joan Osborne: Tangled Up In Dylan
By Steve Houk livingonmusic.com It’s somewhat of a unique phenomenon, that moment when an artist with a voice from heaven like Joan Osborne chooses to roll an entire album of covers from a guy...
Adrian Belew: Best Of Both Worlds
By Steve Houk livingonmusic.com For a musical virtuoso and true groundbreaker like Adrian Belew, you’d think that sharing the studio and the stage throughout his illustrious career with legends like David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads,...
Reviving The Music of a Legendary Concert
By Steve Houk livingonmusic.com Among some other notable factoids, September 3, 1977 is considered by some to be the day the Grateful Dead proved to everyone that they were absolutely here to stay, drawing so many...
Mary Gauthier Powerfully Soldiers On
By Steve Houk / livingonmusic.com Mary Gauthier has to feel that life is full of the gloriously unexpected. Twenty-nine years after she stopped drinking cold turkey and twenty-two after she wrote her first song,...
