Gordon Sharpe

Pilgrim “No Offense, Nevermind, Sorry”

June 28, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

A well-played and sung set that could be brought to another level with some lyrical and subject fine-tuning. ‘No Offense, Nevermind, Sorry’, is the latest release from Tulsa-based band Pilgrim, led by front-man and guitarist, Beau Roberson; a competitive […]

Paperback Riders: Studs Terkel “American Dreams: Lost and Found”

June 22, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

America’s premier oral historian investigates its abiding myth. On the website of the publisher, New Press, in an uncredited paragraph, ‘American Dreams: Lost and Found’, and its author, Studs Terkel, is described as follows: “Terkel persuades […]

Various Artists -“The Electric Muse Revisited – The Story of Folk into Rock and Beyond”

June 3, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

One man’s continuing journey through folk, folk-rock and beyond. This is a 4-CD 61-track collection, based on the original book and album from 1975 and now brought up to date by one of the original authors, Robin […]

Book Review – David Boucher and Lucy Boucher “Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances”

June 3, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 9

Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, their influences, longevity and their ‘Duende’. Having reviewed several books recently; collectively they have made me realise that a past inclination to only stick with musical biographies and autobiographies was a […]

Paperback Riders: John Howard Griffin “Black Like Me”

May 11, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

Blackface or bravery – you decide. ‘Rest at pale evening / A tall slim tree / Night coming tenderly / Black like me’ – from, ‘Dream Variations‘ by Langston Hughes John Howard Griffin disguised himself as […]