Pine Leaf Boys to pay tribute to late bandmate, Saturday
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By Ian Worpole, Contributor
Music Columnist Ian Worpole chronicles his return to the Big Apple
Having spent a rowdy ten years in a cheap loft in Tribeca, New York City (Cheap! It wasn’t quite yet an oxymoron twenty years ago), with two small children and an irate landlord, it was time to move north to Woodstock, a quaint hamlet known for its arts colony and a certain concert that took place in 1964.
We had, in fact, missed the glory days, when Bob Dylan holed up with The Band and produced The Basement Tapes and three or four of the greatest albums ever recorded, and Van the Man [Morrison] ambled irritably down the street, along with John Martyn, Paul Butterfield, Nico, well, you get the picture. But it was still pretty easy living, and at the local Tinker Street Café, Rick Danko of The Band would still show up, sometimes with Garth Hudson and Levon Helm sitting in, and we couldn’t believe our luck.
Texas artists and Arhoolie folk label celebrate 60 years with streaming concert
This past week, Chris Strachwitz s life s work was honored at a virtual 60th-anniversary party in which noted Arhoolie enthusiasts such as ZZ Top s Billy Gibbons, Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Los Tigres…
Andrew Dansby December 13, 2020Updated: December 15, 2020, 10:28 am
Mance Lipscomb, left, played in Navasota when Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz met him. They’re shown in 1964. Photo: Chris Simon & Maureen Gosling
Chris Strachwitz showed up in Texas without much of a plan. He knew he wanted to record the storied blues player Lightnin’ Hopkins, and that was about the extent of his endeavor as an aspiring musicologist. Strachwitz instead found himself following a trail to Navasota trying to track down another musician noted for singing a song about Tom Moore, a plantation owner. He found Mance Lipscomb, who played some songs. Strachwitz recorded them, and upon his return to Californ