UPDATED: Obituary: Nanci Griffith -singer/songwriter (68)

Photo Source: AP I have added more details and obits as well as a great show from Austin City Limits. I have also added the stand-alone items I posted this week. As I have said elsewhere, she usually flew just […]

Joni Mitchell releasing 1968 Ottawa show recorded by Jimi Hendrix

Following his two performances on that night, Hendrix rolled in to Le Hibou with his reel-to-reel recorder as promised and kneeled in front of the stage, unnoticed by most, and recorded Mitchell’s two sets that evening. As he also noted in his diary, Hendrix, like many others at the time, was mesmerized by Mitchell: “fantastic girl with heaven words.”

Yes, The Wolf Will Survive. Los Lobos is Back

Photo: Los Lobos, from left, is Cesar Rosas, Louie Pérez, David Hidalgo, Conrad Lozano and Steve Berlin.(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Los Lobos nearly called it quits last year. Lucky for music-lovers everywhere, they made an album of […]

Laura Nyro: the phenomenal singers’ singer/songwriter the 60s overlooked

Photo: ‘She wrote songs celebrating motherhood, female sexuality and her menstrual cycle’ … Laura Nyro in New York, 1968. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Imagine a time when ‘new albums’ -not new ‘female’ albums- included Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, Blue […]

Bette Midler (Finally) Sells Her 14-Bedroom $50 Million NYC Penthouse

Ms. Midler has confessed that she has been ‘wanting to downsize ever since her daughter moved out.’ 21 April 2021 |  Isis Briones | Architectural Digest (original link) Bette Midler and her husband, Argentine performance artist Martin von Haselberg, are finally […]