With her new album,
The Waylon Sessions, the prolific and wide-ranging
Shannon McNally set out to revisit the songs and spirit of Waylon Jennings, a legend with whom she’s always had an ongoing fascination. “I have always loved his defiantly existential but immediately accessible common man’s music and how it boogies,” says McNally. But her collection of tunes ended up being not so much a tribute as it is a recontextualization; a nuanced, feminine rendering of a catalog long considered a bastion of hetero-masculinity.
That’s not to say McNally has a softer, gentler take on Jennings’ songs in fact, just the opposite. Over and over again, she manages to locate a smoldering intensity, a searing hurt buried deep within the music’s deceptively simple poetry, and she hones in on it with surgical precision on this new album, which features special guests like Jessi Colter, Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell, and Lukas Nelson. “The world has changed a lot since these songs
Tribute to New York Dolls’ guitarist Sylvain Sylvain tops this week’s online concerts
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
Posted Feb 10, 2021
Friends and admirers are gathering for a virtual celebration late New York Dolls’ guitarist Sylvain Sylvain on Sunday, Feb. 14 – on what would have been his 70th birthday. (Photo: Courtesy Rolling Live Studios)
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Just over a month since the New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain passed away at the age of 69, the guitarist’s friends and admirers are gathering for a virtual celebration at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14 what would have been his 70th birthday. Dolls bandmate David Johansen, Debbie Harry and Clem Burke from Blondie, the Patti Smith Group’s Lenny Kaye, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Chuck Prophet, Jesse Malin and more will perform and share stories. Tickets are $15 via rollingslivestudios.com.