David Wild: Steve Martin: My First, My Last, My Everything
The first performer who I ever saw in concert was Steve Martin, and whether this man wants the credit or not, he changed my life forever.
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The first performer who I ever saw in concert was Steve Martin, and whether this man wants the credit or not, he changed my life forever.
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His dad is taking us, along with Corky's two utterly fascinating sisters, to the Central Park Zoo in his green Packard "woodie" station wagon.
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Rising jazz -bassist Esperanza Spalding , guitar veteran Waddy Wachtel and Martin's most recent back-up band, the Steep Canyon Rangers, are among those lending their charms, though the subtle playing and sparse beauty of the music gives Love Has Come For You an almost confidential hush.
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Here's an odd couple: comedian Steve Martin and Mrs Paul Simon.
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I grew up outside of Dallas and used to head to Deep Ellum on the weekend to see the local bands, like the New Bohemians, play Theater Gallery.
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I'm taking a break from judging tonight to bring you a new British band that deserves the oxygen of publicity.
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Rounder Records will release Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's inaugural duo effort "Love Has Come For You" on April 23.
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San Francisco's The Avengers were one of the USA's great punk bands.
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It's time again for Friday on My Mind , our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around one common theme.
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Most famous for her breakout late-1980s hit "What I Am" with the New Bohemians, Edie Brickell always had an uneasy relationship with fame — and eventually she would leave music behind entirely.
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Steve Gadd takes us inside mythical sessions with Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Steely Dan in this special edition of our regular One Track Mind feature.
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Steve Gadd had established himself as one of the most versatile drummers working in music today long before the advent of the Gaddabouts.
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"Meat On Your Bones" then gives way to a series of knee-slapping, ass-wagging, smile-popping concoctions filled with roots rock, country blues, cocktail jazz, rockabilly, front-porch folk — 19 in all, song after song after song, each one a delightful puzzle of smart lyrics and sharp licks.
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I'm good, thank you, Mike. How are you?
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Orlando Higginbottom continues to make droopy disco that reminds me I should not be reviewing music sitting down.
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A new benefit project for model Christy Turlington Burn's Every Mother Counts program will include tracks from a bevy of big names in rock.
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When it comes to listing the most influential artists of our generation, one group that definitely gets short shrift is New Edition.
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What got you on board for the project Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie ?
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Gotta admit, I approached this one with a fair amount of trepidation.
Read More"One of the things people have attached to me is that I'm always changing, but I think I'm just evolving, shedding some things and taking others along with me. There are things that I've taken from the first songs that I wrote when I was 15. I like doo-wop. I stick it in all the time. I like that finger picking I learned when I lived in England. I can't play much blues at all, but the little bit I play is slap and pushed strings that all comes from Davey Graham and Bert Jansch. A lot of things I learned about rhythm from African musicians were useful and made sense to me."
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The music legend turned to an audio journal of a 2009 safari trip he took to Kenya with his wife Edie Brickell as he tried to complete the music for his new album So Beautiful or So What - and ended up incorporating the wildlife sounds into his music.
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The late Frank Zappa was fond of a quote from the equally late Edgar Varese.
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"It's a rare honour to be playing with the two gentlemen I'm on on before," said opener James Vincent McMorrow of his cohorts on the bill.
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It was billed as an acoustic set, but the roadie setting up for J Mascis ' CMW performance at Toronto's Great Hall Friday night didn't get the memo.
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"Iron and Wine kind of blew it last night. When an artist goes for a sound more or less the polar opposite of the one that made them famous, they better bring their A game. Sufjan did it last year, sadly Iron and Wine did not. Bloozy sax rock is not where its at man. 75 minute sets at a sold out Radio City at 50 a ticket aint too great either. That said, some of the new stuff was great, and the Trapeze encore was wonderful." [ Anonymous | January 30, 2011 1:25 PM ] Edie Brickell opened for Iron & Wine at Radio City Music Hall in NYC Saturday night, one night after the same band played a much more intimate and free (and even shorter) show at the SoHo Apple Store.
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Once again, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has opened its doors to several country acts.
Read More"The personalities of the bands play into it so much," Brickell tells Spinner.
Read MoreA new signing is the solo artist Anna Calvi, who plays dark, atmospheric Spanish-tinged guitar-pop.
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