“Musicians start out thinking they’re going to change the world when really it’s the people who make the change. The music just provokes the reaction.” – Mike Peters. Most people who knew anything about Mike Peters […]
David Johansen was a man of many guises: lead singer for the glam-rockers The New York Dolls, lounge lizard in his Buster Poindexter act, the wisecracking Ghost of Christmas Past in the movie “Scrooged” and simply […]
Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Davey Graham…the great guitarists of the British folk boom of the 1960s are leaving us one by one and now, sadly, we have to add Wizz Jones to that number. Very much […]
The passing of Michael Hurley who died on April 1st aged 83 closes the chapter on a remarkable musician. AUK wrote of him a while back that he “ploughed his own unique furrow of pastoral, homespun […]
A virtuoso, an artist, an inventor, a genius – Garth Hudson, the mystic. It almost makes sense that Garth Hudson was the last surviving member of The Band, he seemed to live his life almost outside […]
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