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.”
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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 !
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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.

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.
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BOTTLEGGING WITH BOB

There is one biography that some say tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs .

MUSIC IN PORTSMOUTH

Event listings, news, reviews, features and comment from the classical music scene in and around Portsmouth – including Fareham, Havant, Petersfield, Chichester, Bognor Regis, Midhurst and Petworth are all collated on a wonderful web called Music in Portsmouth, which was brought to my attention by our roving ´bobbies on the beat´ in the uk, DCI Sidetracks and Superintendent Sidetracks

ENGLISH FOLK EXPO: Charting Success

Other entries in the March chart are 'Flowers' (Reveal) by respected songwriter Boo Hewerdine at no. 16, Fairport Convention is new at 22 with 'Full House For Sale' (Matty Grooves), 'Dusk Moon' new at no. 23 by Scottish four piece Rura, guitarist Ben Walker's 'Banish Air From Air' (Folkroom) at 24, 'Petrichor' (The Lost Trades) by vocal harmony trio The Lost Trades at 31, with the last new entry this month being Salt House at number 37 with 'Riverwoods'.