Rock and Roll Hall O...

Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Induction and Carnegie Hall by Christine Ohlman   Spring 2012 arrived with a lovely mid-March night at Carnegie Hall as I took the stage with Ian Hunter (I appear on 4 tracks on Ian’s yet-to-be-named upcoming 2012 release…) for a tribute to the...

Levon Helm – Music Legend dead at 71 Apr22

Levon Helm – M...

Levon Helm – drummer,  multi-instrumentalist, actor and one of the most recognizable voices in music history has passed away at the age  of 71 from complications of cancer.  He had suffered from throat cancer for the last several years.  Although it had made his voice quite raspy in...

Home Is Down The Lon...

  Home is Down The Lonesome Highwayby Christine Ohlman  I was born in the Bronx with Mississippi in my blood. It was always there. I started covering Muddy Waters when I was 13 and wrote “The Seventh Sons,” a song about him and his musical nemesis Howlin’ Wolf, for The Hard...

Andrew Love of the Memphis Horns – Dead at 70 Apr14

Andrew Love of the M...

  Andrew Love was one of the best people I have ever known, He was much like Otis Redding in the fact that he had no prejudice in his person against anything or any body. As for his ability to play music, he had an insight as to what the listeners liked, and for his tenor playing he had...

Marshall Crenshaw’s Kickstarter Project: EP Subscription Series Apr11

Marshall Crenshaw...

  Marshall Crenshaw- one of, if not the best songwriter out there today has just started his Kickstarter project.  And he needs our help!  In one of the most imaginative projects I’ve seen so far, he’s going to release 6 EP’s over a two year period in a subscription...