Who Killed Phillip?
Who Killed Phillip? Is about my friend Phil Bearshirt. I wrote it in 1991 after he died. -Kathleen Yearwood Sometimes, rarely, art and politics get married and it’s perfect. Nobody […]
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Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Joni Mitchell’s process when she wrote the album Mingus was to hang with Charles Mingus and meditate about it afterward then write. Or at least that’s how I remember her […]
The Rich Will Move To The High Ground
I’m as surprised as the next guy to find myself singing songs which contain Holy Doodle in the chorus but he did write for Sesame Street once upon a time. […]
Baltimore
Nina Simone wrote amazing songs and propelled forward great songs by others. An honour for Randy Newman that she would record his music. It’s also one of the most likeable […]
Roll Over Berlusconi
Eugene Chadbourne is many things but protest singer songwriter isn’t the first thing people think of. Most know him for the velocity of his guitar playing, I asked him once […]
Chemical Valley
CLICK HERE TO HEAR Chemical Valley by Kyp Harness. Kyp Harness, the man, the legend. Though he is no doubt humbled by the quality of Juno talent out there Kyp […]
Johannesburg
“We may not know for sure, because the news we get is unreliable man”. In the music business record companies used to employ talent scouts who were called A&R (artist […]