In The Studio: Live

Although Chris Whitley's birth certificate listed Houston Texas as his birthplace, by the time the eclectic modern bluesman's untimely death in 2005 at age 45, Chris had lived all over the world. Sensing a rare authenticity and smoldering passion upon the release of his major label debut Living With the Law in...

You do not have to be a native New Yorker to be in a” New York state of mind” each year on September 11. I am not the first to point out that when things are at their worst, Americans often are at their best. No doubt the toughest gig Billy Joel ever...

With the release of the album Darkness on the Edge of Town in 1978, Bruce Springsteen went from the Cinemascope  sweep of Born to Run three years earlier to the Rock Generation’s defacto Secretary of Labor. Here is Bruce and his legendary E Street Band line up, including the late Danny Federici on...

We are counting down the days until Metallica‘s James Hetfield and Kurt Hammett return here In the Studio September 12 to host the twenty-fifth anniversary of one of rock’s most massively popular efforts, “the Black Album“! To warm up, flashback to the fiftieth anniversary of that most American of worldwide exports, the Super...

Getting in tune and counting the days until Pete Townshend returns In the Studio on the 15th of this month for the 45th anniversary of the timeless Who’s Next. Here is The Who with Kenney Jones on drums in Toronto December 1982 with a spirited “Baba O’Riley“. –Redbeard...

Tom Petty is my guest next week to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Into the Great Wide Open, so here is a rare recorded concert performance of Petty and the Heartbreakers doing the one-off “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” which did not quite make the 1991 album and instead was a surprise hit on...