There is no better early morning music than Red Headed Stranger
I’m beginning to think all the best Wikipedia entries are about pop music. Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson. ...
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RIP Charlie Haden
“No one wants to be remembered most for what they did at 22.” But if at that tender age you get the chance to change musical history with the Ornette Coleman Ba...
John Jeremiah Sullivan Versus the Blues Hunter
I spent last evening utterly absorbed in John Jeremiah Sullivan’s account of his search for two long-dead blues singers, “The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie,...
How Walking Creates Music
Austin Kleon, who’s been playing Erik Satie on the piano a lot lately, has a nice post on this rather eccentric composer. It leads with a bit about a favo...
Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, and Time’s Vain Delusions
A couple weeks ago I found myself staring at an undersized image on my iPhone: the wee tiny cover of Neil Young’s 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps, which I was list...
Laurie Anderson Bids Farewell to Lou Reed
As it turned out, Lou and I didnt live far from each other in New York, and after the festival Lou suggested getting together. I think he liked it when I said, ...
Play That F**king Little Sixteenth Note (NC Moving Party Track 5)
Below find #5 in my Best of Neuron Culture Moving Party — a run of 10 of my favorite posts from the blog’s tenure at WIRED, posted as I moved the blog her...
Gimme Johann, Gimme Jimmy: Music to Write By
What do writers listen to while they write? Over at NeuroTribes, where the splendid Steve Silberman has gathered Music to Write By: 10 Top Authors Share Their S...
Happy Birthday, Jerry Garcia
For Steve Silberman and Richard Ober. Garcia would have been 70 today, had he withstood the ravages he himself and the times inflicted on him. I’ve never ...
“Just Give Me Som Funky Shit Footage”: Neil Young Plays A Glasgow Sidewalk
Neil Young – Old Laughing Lady (1976) by Julos77 This incredibly fantastic footage comes via the irreplaceable Open Culture: 1976, and Neil Young, greeted...