Classical Voice : Rosanne Cash and the Dividends of Faith →

With a legacy as imposing and multifarious as Johnny Cash’s, there’s no way to encompass it on a single album. Rather than making a quixotic attempt to wrap up her father’s life in a concise musical statement, Rosanne Cash took a more elliptical path with her 2009 album The List. The concept was elegant, sentimental, and deeply gratifying, with the singer-songwriter interpreting a dozen folk and country standards gleaned from a list of 100 essential tunes that Johnny Cash recommended she learn as a budding 18-year-old musician.

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Far Out Magazine : The mythical creature that links Steely Dan and Genesis together →

You won’t get much crossover between American jazz rock legends Steely Dan and British prog-rock gods Genesis. Both share a common love for complexity and a certain intellectual bent, but the way the two acts bring their visions to life is completely different. Steely Dan were all about fitting classic R&B ethos into harmonically complicated packages, with some dashes of rock, funk, and pop thrown in to make them commercially viable. Genesis, at least in its initial form, had no worries about mainstream: they were a distinctly English form of progressive rock, with extremely long excursions that could blend time signatures, key signatures, and nursery rhymes together.

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The West Virginia Daily News : Carnegie Hall Presents Grammy Award Winner Amy Helm Friday, February 18 →

Lewisburg, WV – Carnegie Hall Mainstage Performance Series continues with soulful singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Amy Helm on Friday, February 18, at 7:30 p.m in the Hamilton Auditorium. Masks are required.
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Multiple Grammy Awards winner Amy Helm will be out promoting her third album, What the Flood Leaves Behind. It is her most autobiographical yet, both in content and creation. Out now on Renew Records/BMG, the album’s 10 songs represent a gathering of ideas and experiences, friends and collaborators. Yet, the album also marks a landing — a pause for the traveling musician and mother of two young boys who was seeking clarity in her calling and career.

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Nonesuch : Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder Reunite After a Half-Century for New Album, 'GET ON BOARD,' Out April 22 on Nonesuch →

Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives: GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE, out April 22, 2022, on Nonesuch Records. A video for the track “Hooray Hooray” may be seen below, as well as an interview with Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal about the record.

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Rolling Stone : Hear Marianne Faithfull’s Forceful ‘Vagabond Ways’ Demo for ‘Incarceration of a Flower Child’ →

Marianne Faithfull will give her 1999 album, Vagabond Ways, the deluxe treatment with a reissue due out March 4. She’s teasing the release with the demo recording for the album’s “Incarceration of a Flower Child,” a song Roger Waterswrote in 1968 but never recorded with Pink Floyd.

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