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Interviews, Concert Reviews, and Other Writing

Robyn Hitchcock in Asheville, NC – April 16, 2024 (for Asheville Stages) – April 22, 2024
Broken Arrow Devotion :: Neil Young Obsessives In Conversation (for Aquarium Drunkard with Joel Berk) – April 16, 2024
Jim White :: All Hits: Memories (for Aquarium Drunkard) – March 26, 2024
Late Cold War Style in Songwriting: 1978-1984 (for Aquarium Drunkard) – March 19, 2024
LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” – March 3, 2024
Interview with Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (for Aquarium Drunkard) – February 22, 2024
Interview with Elizabeth Nelson of The Paranoid Style – January 15, 2024
Glue and Nails :: Elvis Costello & Marc Ribot on “Chewing Gum” (for Aquarium Drunkard) – January 9, 2024
Setting in Asheville, NC – December 17, 2023 (for Asheville Stages)
Review of James Elkington’s Me Neither (for Aquarium Drunkard) – December 6, 2023
Review of Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine (for Aquarium Drunkard) – December 5, 2023
Dylan’s 1966 “Royal Albert Hall” Performance: Two Interpretations by Cat Power and Robyn Hitchcock – December 3, 2023
“Beat Bop”: Hip-Hop and World-Building in 1980s Downtown New York – November 19, 2023
Tortoise in Asheville, NC – November 3, 2023 (for Asheville Stages)
Interview: Anne Margaret Daniel on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine – October 24, 2023
Interview: Mike Baggetta of mssv (for Asheville Stages) – October 16, 2023
Interview: Edsel Axle (for Aquarium Drunkard) – October 9, 2023
The Eerie in Dirty Three’s “Some Summers They Drop Like Flies” – October 1, 2023
“I Have Loved You So Long”: Neil Young, Leonard Cohen & “Greensleeves” – September 10, 2023
On the Duo Format (An Interview Series) Part 1 (for Aquarium Drunkard) – September 1, 2023
One the Duo Format (An Interview Series) Part 2 (for Aquarium Drunkard) – September 8, 2023
“Born in the U.S.A.”: Suicide in Paris, January 20, 1987 – July 30, 2023
The Smile in Asheville, NC – July 3, 2023 (for Asheville Stages)
Interview: Douglas McCombs (for Aquarium Drunkard) – June 22, 2023
Flathanded and on the Wing – Calexico and Brokeback with story by Douglas McCombs – June 26, 2023
Neil Young & The Santa Monica Flyers, Chicago, IL – November 20, 1973 – June 11, 2023
Interview: Chris Forsyth (for Asheville Stages) – April 13, 2023
Bill Callahan in Asheville, NC – February 26-27
Elvis Costello at the Gramercy Theater – February 10, 2023
Finite – Natural Information Society and Songlines – April 20, 2022
Acid Westerns – September 16, 2021
Occapella – October 8, 2014

Bill Callahan Series

Teenage Spaceship – January 1, 2023
Feather by Feather – January 8, 2023
Say Valley Maker – January 15, 2023
The Well – January 22, 2023
Vessel in Vain / Let Me See the Colts – January 29, 2023
From the River to the Ocean – February 5, 2023
Jim Cain – February 12, 2023
Eid Ma Clack Shaw – February 19, 2023
Drover / Baby’s Breath – February 26, 2023
Universal Applicant – March 5, 2023
One Fine Morning – March 12, 2023
Spring – March 19, 2023
Summer Painter – March 26, 2023
Son of the Sea – April 9, 2023
747 / Circles / When We Let Go / Lonesome Valley – April 16, 2023
Cowboy – April 23, 2023
35 / As I Wander – April 30, 2023
Coyotes – May 7, 2023
Drainface – May 14, 2023
Planets – May 21, 2023

Elvis Costello Series

Watching the Detectives – May 8, 2022
New Amsterdam – May 15, 2022
Beyond Belief – May 22, 2022
Almost Blue – May 29, 2022
Deportee – June 5, 2022
Brilliant Mistake – June 12, 2022
Suit of Lights – June 19, 2022
Uncomplicated – June 26, 2022
Tokyo Storm Warning – July 4, 2022
The Lovers That Never Were: The Paul McCartney & Elvis Costello Demos – July 11, 2022
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror – July 17, 2022
All This Useless Beauty – July 24, 2022
Poor Fractured Atlas – July 31, 2022
My Dark Life – August 7, 2022
When I Was Cruel No. 2 – August 14, 2022
Alibi – August 21, 2022
The Delivery Man – August 28, 2022
Country Darkness – September 4, 2022
Stations of the Cross – September 11, 2022
(What’s So Funny About) Peace, Love, and Understanding – September 18, 2022

Bob Dylan Series

Bob Dylan in Asheville, NC – March 21, 2024
Recitations on Waitresses & Art Within Terry Allen’s “The Beautiful Waitress” and Bob Dylan’s “Highlands” – October 9, 2022
Abandoned Love – May 24, 2021
Ain’t Talkin’ – May 24, 2021
Angelina – May 27, 2021
Ballad of a Thin Man – May 31, 2021
Billy 4 – June 7, 2021
Blind Willie McTell – June 3, 2021
Brownsville Girl – June 13, 2021
Can’t Wait – June 16, 2021
Changing of the Guards – June 20, 2021
Copper Kettle – June 23, 2021
Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) – June 27, 2021
Desolation Row – March 16, 2022
Every Grain of Sand – July 4, 2021
Floater (Too Much to Ask) – July 7, 2021
Foot of Pride – July 11, 2021
Girl from the North Country – July 14, 2021
Goin’ to Acapulco – July 28, 2021
Going, Going Gone – August 11, 2021
High Water (For Charley Patton) – August 1, 2021
Highlands – August 4, 2021
Highway 61 Revisited – August 16, 2021
I and I – August 18, 2021
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine – August 22, 2021
I’ll Keep It with Mine – August 25, 2021
I’m Not There – August 29, 2021
Idiot Wind – September 5, 2021
If You See Her, Say Hello – September 8, 2021
Isis – September 12, 2021
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry – September 1, 2021
Jokerman – September 19, 2021
Just Like a Woman – September 22, 2021
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – September 26, 2021
Kickin’ My Dog Around – October 3, 2021
King of France – October 6, 2021
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – June 10, 2021
License to Kill – September 29, 2021
Like a Rolling Stone – October 10, 2021
Lo and Behold! – October 17, 2021
Love Sick – October 20, 2021
Man in the Long Black Coat – October 24, 2021
Million Dollar Bash – October 27, 2021
Mississippi – October 31, 2021
Mr. Tambourine Man – November 3, 2021
One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) – November 7, 2021
One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) – November 10, 2021
One Too Many Mornings – November 14, 2021
Outlaw Blues – November 17, 2021
Patty’s Gone to Laredo – November 28, 2021
Positively Van Gogh – December 1, 2021
Pressing On – December 5, 2021
Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) – December 8, 2021
Red River Shore – December 12, 2021
Romance in Durango – September 15, 2021
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands – December 15, 2021
See You Later, Allen Ginsberg – December 19, 2021
Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) – December 22, 2021
Series of Dreams – December 26, 2021
She Belongs to Me – December 29, 2021
She’s Your Lover Now – January 2, 2022
Shelter from the Storm – January 9, 2022
Simple Twist of Fate – January 12, 2022
Someday Baby – January 5, 2022
Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again – June 30, 2021
Subterranean Homesick Blues – August 8, 2021
Summer Days – January 16, 2022
Tangled Up in Blue – January 23, 2022
Tell Me, Momma – January 26, 2022
The Groom’s Still Waiting at the Altar – July 25, 2021
Things Have Changed – January 30, 2022
Time Passes Slowly – February 2, 2022
To Ramona – February 6, 2022
Tombstone Blues – February 9, 2022
Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here with You – February 13, 2022
Up to Me – February 16, 2022
Visions of Johanna – February 24, 2022
Watching the River Flow – February 27, 2022
When I Paint My Masterpiece – March 2, 2022
When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky – October 13, 2021
Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat) – March 6, 2022
You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – March 13, 2022

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