by Norman Ross

thecarlyle.com
judycollins.com
nedrorem.com
Judy is an enormously talented musician, and it is a treat to watch her strumming away on her signature Martin 12-string guitar and her unsigned 88-string Steinway piano. Listening to her at the Carlyle though was a slightly different matter. Although she commented on “what a wonderful room” it is, she didn’t say [...]

Harry Shearer’s is the voice you hear regularly on the Simpsons but you might have also caught him in Spinal Tap or A Mighty Wind. It took a mighty fortitude to watch A Mighty Wind if you were a folky in the 60’s as he skewered some of the stereotypes so perfectly; self- satisfied, smug, [...]

by Jeff Ritter, ed. Broadside Revived
At an informal gathering the other day the name of Phil Ochs came up and a former SDS organizer described a great story of his first encounter with both Phil Ochs and illegal drugs in the same sentence! After that we began trying to imagine who the great politically [...]

Check out our interview with Pete Seeger here.