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☆ At 80, Steve Miller Calls Himself a ‘Late Bloomer’
  + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Steve Miller, 1970s rock icon, strolled out onto an elegant Jazz at Lincoln Center stage last week, sat down on a stool and picked up a custom double-necked acoustic guitar. Smiling widely, he told the sold-out crowd that he was going to start with “a different version” of a song they’d all know. The two versions, almost a half century apart, were instantly connected by the familiar timbre of Miller’s voice. At this show, his seventh annual two-night celebration of the blues, Miller performed only two of his own songs, otherwise concentrating on the music of his blues influences and mentors. “He’s just going to take this music we love into the future,” Miller said backstage in an interview a few days earlier.
Persons: Steve Miller, Miller, Christone, ” Ingram, “ He’s, ” Miller, “, ” Organizations: Lincoln Center, Jet
☆ Songwriter Glen Ballard Is Going ‘Back to the Future’
  + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
How does a songwriter go about turning an iconic movie into a Broadway musical? “You take the Hippocratic oath: First do no harm,” says Glen Ballard, the co-composer of the new stage version of “Back to the Future,” the beloved 1985 film about a time-traveling teenager. For the show, which opened in New York last month, Ballard says he and his songwriting partner Alan Silvestri aimed to expand the audience’s relationships with the characters they love. In movies, he notes, “we see people doing things, but we’re not exactly sure why. Musical theater can provide that back story and make a great companion, but it is delicate surgery.”
Persons: Glen Ballard, Ballard, Alan Silvestri, ” Locations: New York
☆ Robbie Robertson Misses His Brothers in The Band
  + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
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Persons: Dow Jones, robbie, robertson
☆ Dave Matthews Never Stopped Focusing on the Next Gig
  + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
When Dave Matthews formed his namesake band over 30 years ago, in Charlottesville, Va., most of his bandmates were seasoned professional musicians. He was more of a bedroom guitar picker, better known as the bartender at Miller’s, a hub of the town’s music scene. “I was intimidated to even ask any of the guys to play with me,” says Matthews, 56. “They liked me because I was funny and had a heavy pour.”
Persons: Dave Matthews, “, ”, Matthews Locations: Charlottesville, Va
☆ Smokey Robinson Helped Create the Sound of Motown
  + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
In the 1960s and ‘70s, Motown Records helped to define a golden age of American music, as rhythm and blues and rock and roll became the world’s dominant pop genres. Smokey Robinson played a double role in creating the Detroit-based label’s remarkable stream of hits. The label’s founder, Berry Gordy Jr., is a songwriter whose credits include Jackie Wilson’s “Lonely Teardrops” and the Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back.” But nobody excelled in multiple roles like Mr. Robinson did. “We started out doing everything,” says Mr. Robinson. “We were promotion men and record packagers and anything else that needed to be done.”
☆ How the Allman Brothers Band Helped Make Jimmy Carter President
  + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
News that Jimmy Carter , 98, has entered hospice care sparked an outpouring of appreciation and admiration from many corners, including the fans and surviving members of the Allman Brothers Band. The group played a crucial role in his bid for the 1976 Democratic nomination and then the presidency. “The Allman Brothers helped put me in the White House by raising money when I didn’t have any,” Mr. Carter said in the documentary film “Jimmy Carter: Rock and Roll President.”As the then-governor of Georgia began his presidential campaign in early 1974, the Macon, Ga.-based band was the most popular act in the nation, riding high on their hit album “Brothers and Sisters” and its smash single “Ramblin’ Man.” The band’s co-frontman Gregg Allman was emerging as a national celebrity, a status sealed by his 1975 marriage to Cher.
☆ Billy Strings Found a Life Raft in Music
  + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
Billy Strings, 30, is one of the fastest-rising touring acts in American music. Mr. Strings’s love of high-flying, risk-taking improvisation has endeared him to fans of jam bands like Phish and let him expand far beyond the bluegrass world where he started. Though he built his reputation on magnetic live performances, Mr. Strings’s career skyrocketed during the Covid pandemic, when touring was shut down. He started streaming performances from his home, then moved on to broadcasting from empty clubs, culminating in six nights at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y. “It felt like the Twilight Zone,” says Mr. Strings. “Live music is a conversation between the audience and the performer, but there was nobody talking back to us, and it honestly felt kind of pitiful.”
☆ Cameron Crowe Had a Front-Row Seat for 1970s Rock
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Cameron Crowe was one of rock’s top journalists before he had a driver’s license, a 16-year-old traveling the country with groups like the Allman Brothers Band and writing cover stories for Rolling Stone magazine. Yet the prodigy grew up in a San Diego house where listening to rock and roll was forbidden. Mr. Crowe’s mother Alice felt so strongly about the music’s lack of redeeming value that she wrote a letter to NBC complaining about Simon and Garfunkel performing “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.”How did she handle her son’s immersion in a world she had tried so hard to keep him away from? “I think she got a big kick out of it,” Mr. Crowe says. “She was a teacher, and she felt that she taught me well enough to write from my heart.
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