Jerry Lee Lewis

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The Molenes get dark and low-down

Good and evil
Roots music is a big tent. The Molenes have poked their noses into just about every corner of it over the course of their first two records, trying out everything from bluegrass to rockabilly and moving from ripping twanged-out guitar solos to more refined acoustic finger-picking.
By SAM PFEIFLE | October 12, 2010

Cowboy junkie

In his paintings and music, Jon Langford resurrects and pays respect to a vanished American past
England in the mid-’80s, gray and depressed by Thatcherism and the Smiths, wasn’t a place folks typically dressed to the nines in ten-gallon hats, bolo ties, and Nudie shirts. But such were the sartorial choices made those days by the members of the Mekons.
By MIKE MILIARD | April 08, 2010

Flanagan’s empire

Native son Bill Flanagan — novelist and MTV executive — discusses big books, musical longevity, Irish Catholicism, and Behind the Music .
Once a staple of the pages of The NewPaper (original incarnation of The Providence Phoenix ), Warwick-born Bill Flanagan went on to become a prominent rock journalist whose credits include U2: At the End of the World , the definitive portrait of one of the world's biggest bands.
By MICHAEL ATCHISON | February 05, 2010

The doctor is in

Stanley Sagov’s jazz remedies, plus Saxophone Summit
That Stanley Sagov plays jazz at all is impressive. That he plays it at such a high level is stunning.
By JON GARELICK | October 08, 2008

Unplugged

Arcadia Landing call it quits
Four friends, two bands, and nine years laer, Arcadia Landing is closed for business, according to a statement posted on their MySpace page on July 25.
By CHRIS CONTI | August 27, 2008

Preacher Jack gets it from on high

Boston rock legend and 66-year-old piano wrangler keeps hammering the keys
“I get my energy directly from Jesus,” says Preacher Jack Coughlin.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | July 02, 2008

Johnny Carlevale and the Rollin’ Pins live it up

Gettin' real gone
Over the years, Providence’s Johnny Carlevale has served as a kind of musical archivist.
By BOB GULLA | June 10, 2008

Unauthorized!

Axl Rose, Albert Goldman, and the renegade art of rock biography
I think it may have been sometime in the 1970s that the term “unauthorized” became sort of cool.
By JAMES PARKER | May 26, 2009

Prime time

Heeere’s . . . Johnny Cash!
To many political conservatives during Vietnam, championing the music of Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, and Joni Mitchell was the equivalent of French-kissing Chairman Mao.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | October 23, 2007

Playlist: August 24, 2007

Matt Parish of Ho-Ag: “Five favorite records I got at my grandparents’ house in West Virginia this year”
Jerry Lee Lewis, Percy Faith, Huey Lewis & the News, and more.
By MATT PARISH | August 21, 2007

Ain’t that America

Henry Horenstein surveys country music in the 1970s
Photographer Henry Horenstein crossed paths with Jerry Lee Lewis at a Ramada Inn in Boston in 1975.
By GREG COOK | July 03, 2007

New Orleans notes

A city holds fast to its soul
This year as last, the refrain at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was: “We’re back.”
By JON GARELICK | May 08, 2007

Piano play

Senior recital of yesterday, études of today
The history of musical étude is rooted in piano pedagogy.
By BEN MEIKLEJOHN | March 14, 2007

In the right field

Daniel Sonenberg gets everyone into the compositional league
In his third year as resident composer and professor at the University of Southern Maine, Daniel Sonenberg is making his mark in the field.
By BEN MEIKLEJOHN | March 12, 2007

Dead, or immortal?

Nas’s album title challenges a generation
When Chuck D challenges the status quo, a bunch of fortysomethings nod their heads, but Nas can put the young rappers on the defensive.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER | January 24, 2007

Sex, clubs and rock ’n’ roll

The Dresden Dolls shift into harder-rockin’ mode
The first thing you’d have noticed about the Dresden Dolls’ CD-release show at the Orpheum April 21 was how different it felt to be seated in a theater while the duo played.
By BRETT MILANO | May 02, 2006

Folk hero

Richard Thompson’s Free Reed box
Richard Thompson’s fans can be a bit smug about the singer/guitarist’s ongoing failure to achieve a commercial breakthrough.
By BRETT MILANO | January 28, 2010

30 songs to spill beer on your iPod to

The greatest drinking songs of all time
No song captures the quiet desperation of a hard-drinking, hardscrabble nowhere town better than this one.
By MIKE MILIARD | March 16, 2006