Category: Music and Performing Arts

26 May, 2019

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...

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20 May, 2019

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...

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24 Apr, 2019

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...

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10 Apr, 2019

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,...

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28 Mar, 2019

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...

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22 Mar, 2019

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,...

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21 Mar, 2019

Music Notes: The Rhythmic Brain Of Mickey Hart

By Steve Houk / livingonmusic.com Mickey Hart has got rhythm. Of course anyone who knows anything about rock music knows that. I mean, as drummer and percussionist extraordinaire for the Grateful Dead for over...