The Band
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Bruce Springsteen’s Tour de Force August 12, 2024
LONDON—I have seen rock ‘n’ roll’s past, and its name is still Bruce Springsteen. I have seen Springsteen half a dozen times over five decades, indoors and outdoors, with and without the E Street Band, from the rafters and from the side of the stage....
Robbie Robertson’s Family Feud August 12, 2024
On a rainy Nov. 15, 2023, a small group of music and film luminaries gathered at the Village Recorder, the famed studio housed in an old Masonic temple in West L.A. where everything from Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk to Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle was recorded.Am...
Robbie Robertson’s Tailor August 09, 2024
According to my father, it was Harold “the Colonel” Kudlets, a talent broker in Hamilton, Ontario, who brought Rompin’ Ronnie Hawkins and Levon Helm up to Canada. Kudlets, a Glasgow-born Jew, knew Charlie Halbert, an agent down in Helena, Arkansas, w...
Nine Observations on the Avant-Garde August 08, 2024
Some time back, I was invited to attend a concert by an up-and-coming avant-garde band. These musicians were hellbent on disruption and mayhem, proving their transgressive credentials at every turn.My companion that evening was a well-known jazz musi...
