In The Studio Archives: Live

Leave it to the Man from Manitoba, Tom Cochrane, to use his vantage point from America’s northern neighbor to take an impassioned, affectionate, yet unflinching look at a post-Reagan US in this stripped down 1989 live performance of “Calling America” in a Dallas Mexican restaurant. Tom is supported impressively by tasty electric guitarist...

He celebrated a birthday over the weekend, but Todd Rundgren had one of the strongest live bands, Utopia, working in 1979 when this Boston gig was broadcast nationwide on the eve of Thanksgiving. Here’s a medley of “The Road to Utopia/ Caravan” originally found on Adventures in Utopia.  ...

For you swingin’ cats and kittens, Steve Lawrence and his late wife Eydie Gourmet showed  Soundgarden how the adults do it with their Loung-a-Palooza 1997 cover of Chris Cornell’s “Black Hole Sun“. Crazy man, crazy....

Austin Texas-based musician Charlie Sexton‘s career arc resembles more an electrocardiogram, with stops as a Bob Dylan protege, solo in the mid-’80s, then the probably too-good-to-last Arcangels with Double Trouble’s Chris Layton,  Tommy Shannon, plus Eric Clapton accolyte Doyle Bramhall II. But Charlie Sexton can write and sing with just the most basic...

In 1987 Texan Steve Earle and I were sitting by the pool on the patio of Dallas’ former Greenville Avenue Country Club bar/ restaurant when he put this acoustic guitar with the huge sound on his knee and belted out “Copperhead Road”, his five minute movie-in-your-mind. – Redbeard Steve Earle in 1987 (right),...

You can dock me points for the minimalist recorded sound, but Steve Forbert‘s “Rock While I Can Rock” scores big time in the attitude column now even more than when he performed this in 1992. Recorded live solo one man band right off the dance floor at Arlington Texas’ Baja Beach Club, ignore...

There is a harmonic convergence this Summer in the collective world of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young of a magnitude rarely seen before. Graham Nash‘s autobiography Wild Tales has received great reviews; Neil Young has been performing some one man acoustic shows this Spring before adoring audiences; David Crosby’s Croz album released this...