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2009 Montreux Jazz Festival : Chickenfoot, Dave Matthews Band, Steely Dan
by Phillip Woolever
Chickenfoot, Dave Matthews Band, Steely Dan Montreux Jazz Festival/Auditorium Stravinski Montreux, Switzerland July 4, 2009 The United States were impeccably represented as the land of the free form during a Fourth of July special that showcased three distinct improvisational imports. A packed, international crowd of well over 4,000 was ready ...
The Neil Young Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972)
by Doug Collette
Neil Young's Archives project has been subject to so many delays, and rumors arising out of those delays, that its eventual release—as a 10-disc box set as well as in other formats—is almost an anticlimax. The project is, however, the work of a master singer, guitarist and songwriter who has studiously refused to look back or ...
Neil Young's Massive Blu-Ray Project
Neil Young has been working on his Archives project for so long that the big news in the tech world when it was first announced was Windows 3.0. Back in 1988, the curmudgeonly musician conceived the mother of all box sets, a multimedia data dump that presents the breadth of his workthe good, the bad, and ...
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009
by Gary Firstenberg
If you want to experience music as wide and as deep as the mighty Mississippi River, it is best to go right to the source. In the lush surroundings of the oldest horse racing track in The Big Easy, the 40th Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival celebrated a diverse assortment of music, and provided ...
Cassandra Wilson: Closer to You: The Pop Side
by Ian Patterson
Any vocalist who can take an old chestnut like “St. James Infirmary" and make it swing and crackle like never before, as Cassandra Wilson did on the wonderful Loverly(Blue Note, 2008), is surely something a bit special. Wilson's ability to make old material sound freshly minted is nothing new however, and Closer to You: The Pop ...
Neil Young: Fork in the Road
by Ian Patterson
It's been almost forty five years since Neil Young's first solo tour began one of the most remarkable careers in modern music. From a Woodstock-era folk-rock icon and introspective songwriter, to inimitable electric guitarist and godfather of grunge, few artists can match Young's substantial body of work for energy and quality. His live shows, whether with ...
Neil Young's Philosophy on Recording: Let's Roll
From early on, Neil Young has operated on a document-everything, edit-later philosophy. That became crystal clear when I sat down with the three-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee last week in Santa Monica to talk about his long-gestating Archives box set that finally sees release on June 2. The stockpile mentality has resulted in ...
Neil Young's 'Fork in the Road'
“There's a bailout coming, but it's not for you," Neil Young laments in the title track from Fork in the Road, a crackling travelogue that in some ways could be viewed as his version of Twitter. This in-the-moment dispatch from the mercurial rocker was clearly inspired by his LincVolt project, in which he's converting a gas-guzzling ...
Ex-Beach Boy Jardine Recruits Neil Young, Steve Miller for Solo Album
Former Beach Boy Al Jardine recruited an impressive group of all-star friends to be part of his new solo album, which he plans to release in early summer. Neil Young, Brian Wilson, Steve Miller, Stephen Stills, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and Glen Campbell all guest on “Post Card From California," which includes a mix ...
Neil Young Debuts 'Fork in the Road' Tonight on Myspace
Neil Young - Cough Up the Bucks Well, tonight's the night: At the stroke of midnight, Neil Young will premiere his new album, Fork in the Road, on MySpace. Fans of Young's guitar salvos can stream the entire album for free before it goes on shelves April 7. The video for the single “Cough Up the ...
