HER COUNTRY
In country music, the men might dominate the radio waves. However it’s women, like Maren Morris (left), Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraves, who are making history.
Author Archive for: Norman
Entries by Norman Warwick
SPRINGSTEEN IS STILL THE BOSS AROUND HERE
“I’ll See You in My Dreams” is unmistakably personal, and it follows other songs from earlier in Springsteen´s set that strike the same tone
COOPER, BRACE AND JUTZ
One of Peter Cooper’s beliefs was key to his craft: “Objectivity is the mortal enemy.”
PLAYING MOON AND FORTY TWO
Thousands of contributors to the legacy and perpetuity of rock and roll are included in this third edition encyclopedia of what is clearly stated to be rock and roll rather than simply an encyclopedia of ´the somewhat obscure names listened to by Norman Warwick. Nevertheless a casual leaf through the entire A to Z threw up a list of many artists who now live in the shaded part of a Venn diagram that sees many in the circle representing The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock And Roll, and others I would consider to be Norms not ´very well known but nevertheless seminal´figures, all lving together in the shady area.
MAY be the month of classical, jazz and rock n´roll
buy quickly before tickets are sold out, because as the wealth of gigs shared with us by friendly listing agencies, this MAY be the month of all music !
HAVE A LITTLE FAITH IN YOUR BOOKSHELF
It seems the man who emerges from this book, who has lived this story is respected as a man and a musician by all who have come to know him.
UPLIFTING UPDATES: UK, LANZAROTE & THE CANARY ISLANDS
Given that the tryptich has been prepared during the Russian onslaught on Ukraine it is perhaps not surprising that beautiful though these works are in many ways, there are still sibilant whispers in them that something wicked this way comes.
MARK KNOPFLER:
his Romeo and Juliet with Dire Staits as perfectly caught the sounds of the street and its shorthand conversations as surely as ever did Shakespeare a few hundred years ago. Whereas Shakespeare had Romeo suggest ´Let´s Talk. It is not day´, Knopfler had him ask, ÿou and me giorl, how about it?´we all knew what they both meant !
RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS
And in Pál Banda he had an ideal vehicle for these ever-thrilling compositions. They thrive on their own mystery. Come December, it may or may not be deemed necessary to compile a short list of Events of the Year. This is the third candidate for it already. Such things should not be reduced to the tawdry level of a league table and last year I didn’t pick an outright winner but some things are somehow ‘better’ than some other things and sometimes, in some way, that is in some part, the point.
all across the arts TO NEW HORIZONS
Steve Cooke has done a superb job of maintaining the all across the arts page. Over the last seven years he has surrounded himself with, and has enjoyed the support of, the great and the good of the Rochdale arts scene, with its revenue funded arts organisations, independent artists, theatres, galleries and pub venues. Poets Seamus Kelly and Eileen Earnshaw were regular contributors to his pages and he carried news from local groups like Touchstones cwg, Weaving Words, Langley Writers and followed the nomadic wanderings of Those Bard From The Baum to the Flying Horse and beyond, and Mr. Cooke maintained a synergy with Steve Bewick jazz radio presenter of Hot Biscuits.
