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Fricke's Picks: Blue Van, Deltahead, Eduardo Mateo
Here is a good way to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Summer of Love without breaking your neck looking backward: Dear Independence (TVT), the second album ... | More »July 31, 11:40 AM ET| David Fricke -
Crossroads Guitar Festival: Clapton, B.B. King, Jeff Beck Tear Through Six-String Salutes to Friends and Idols
"I do this for fun," Eric Clapton confessed in an interview the day before he hosted and headlined the second Crossroads Guitar Festival, an eleven-hour marathon of so... | More »July 30, 1:18 PM ET| David Fricke -
Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer: Tool Leader Speaks on Enigmatic Side Project
When you say the name of Maynard James Keenan's new recording project, Puscifer, it is "Pus as in Puss'n'Boots," says the Tool singer on a recent aftern... | More »July 18, 1:27 PM ET| David Fricke -
The Decemberists Spread Midsummer Night's Dreams in Central Park
Colin Meloy, singer-guitarist and songwriting captain of the Decemberists, is a master of improbable juxtaposition: arcane, detailed fictions of star-crossed passion a... | More »July 17, 1:54 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Arthur Lee and Len Price 3
The first time I saw the late Arthur Lee in concert with his band Love was in December 1970, at the Fillmore East in New York, where they opened for the Kinks. I clear... | More »June 18, 6:03 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Lobby Loyde
When Australian guitarist Lobby Loyde died of lung cancer on April 21st at age sixty-five, that country lost its first homegrown guitar hero. Born John Baslington Lyde... | More »June 3, 1:52 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Jon Cleary, Pine Leaf Boys and Kermit Ruffins
In New Orleans, the funk always comes hard and heavy. But at the 2007 edition of the city's Jazz and Heritage Festival, local soul men hit the classic-rock and he... | More »May 19, 4:58 AM ET| David Fricke -
New Orleans Jazz Fest: Still The Best Party Around
Pinching his nose with his thumb and forefinger in the universal sign of peee-eeww, pianist Eddie B turned to the audience at House of Blues in New Orleans on April 30... | More »May 2, 5:05 PM ET| David Fricke -
Psych-Rock Icon Roky Erickson Makes Triumphant Return to NYC
Halfway through his April 15th concert at the Bowery Ballroom in New York, Roky Erickson -- the feral voice of the Sixties' original psychedelic rangers, the 13th... | More »April 16, 4:50 PM ET| David Fricke -
The Allman Brothers: Live At The Beacon
The Allman Brothers Band opened their April 7th show at New York's Beacon Theater -- the fourteenth and next-to-last night of the 2007 edition of their annual spr... | More »April 9, 4:54 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Chris Whitley, Tall Firs and Amplified Heat
In April 2005, Texas-born haunted- blues singer- songwriter and slide guitarist Chris Whitley made an album in Australia with local singer- guitarist Jeff Lang: Disloc... | More »April 7, 9:44 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Dyke and the Blazers, Bob Frank and John Murry, MV & EE With the Bummer Road
Arlester "Dyke" Christian, the leader and wild-funk voice of the Sixties R&B machine Dyke and the Blazers, knew a good thing when he had it. And he made the most of it... | More »March 24, 8:13 AM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Nils Lofgren, Stefano Bollani and Southern Culture on the Skids
Singer-guitarist Nils Lofgren released not one but two of 1975's best albums. The first was his solo debut, Nils Lofgren (A&M), a firecracker of fuzz-box rock and... | More »March 10, 12:56 PM ET| David Fricke -
Fricke's Picks: Folk-Blues Guitarist David Bromberg, British Instrumentalist James Blackshaw, Bruce Licher's "Exploratorium"
The extraordinary folk-blues guitarist David Bromberg has strolled back into the spotlight as abruptly as he resigned from it nearly three decades ago, when he dissolv... | More »February 24, 1:29 PM ET| David Fricke
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