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Arlo All Alonenew

With the presidential primary season in overdrive, I had to ask this icon of the flower power era for his take on the current campaign.
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jim Newsom  |  02-07-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Playing off the Pagenew

On their most recent CD, A Love Supreme, the Turtle Island Quartet dropped the word "String" from the middle of their name.
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jim Newsom  |  01-31-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Better than William Shatnernew

"I was always writing songs," Jeff Daniels said when he called a couple of weeks ago, "god-awful bad songs. I kept them in a notebook."
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jim Newsom  |  01-31-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

Doug MacLeod: Call Him a Blues Mannew

MacLeod has a great blues voice, filled with the hardscrabble grit of the Mississippi delta.
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jim Newsom  |  10-31-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

Kathleen Grace, a Late Bloomer, Blossomsnew

She is in the vanguard of a small but exciting movement of young jazz singers who are, in her words, stepping "outside the box of the American Songbook into the world of original music."
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jim Newsom  |  10-17-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

Hem's Hungernew

From a lonesome ballad to a dreamy waltz, Hem's unique, lush sound is impossible to pigeonhole.
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jim Morrison  |  04-11-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

Sharing the Giftnew

Since being introduced to much of the world by Paul Simon in 1986, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has made it in many ways, winning two Grammy awards and garnering numerous other nominations and honors.
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jim Newsom  |  03-08-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

Arlo Guthrie's Family Businessnew

As he approaches his 60th birthday, Guthrie is both the finest folksinger of his generation and one of its most entertaining performers.
Port Folio Weekly  |  Jim Newsom  |  02-21-2007  |  Profiles & Interviews

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