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John Hammond Recalls His Meetings With Clapton, Hendrix, Dylan and Waitsnew

John Hammond's latest Grammy nomination is for last year's Rough & Tough album, which he recorded at the landmark St. Peter's Church in New York City. Were he not so talented and accomplished in his own right, it would be easy to dismiss Hammond as the music world's version of Woody Allen's Leonard Zelig.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
01-21-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Hammond, Rough & Tough, The Band, Tom Waits, Satan, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Grammy
Cedric Burnside Carries On His Grandfather's Country Blues Traditionnew

At 13, Cedric Burnside began touring as a drummer with his grandfather R.L. Burnside, the famed country blues singer who experienced an unexpected career resurgence after his unlikely 1996 collaboration with Pussy Galore/Blues Explosion frontman Jon Spencer.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
01-14-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Born Under a Blues Signnew

Lurrie Bell's nomination for a Grammy Award earlier this month was the latest confirmation of the blues inheritance that sustained his career and even saved his life.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
01-07-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Austin's Band of Heathens Offer Up Alt-Country for Catholic Tastesnew

Texans twang differently than their Tennessee counterparts, and rightly so. Blame it on outlaws like Waylon and Willie, Lubbock lunatics like Terry Allen and Joe Ely, or any number of insurgent country artists who get started on Austin's 6th Street and radiate outward from there.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
01-07-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Louisiana's Grammy-Nominated Pine Leaf Boys Take the Lead in a New Cajun Crusadenew
"I was raised on a little farm, my parents were very traditionalist, and they didn't have any music except for Cajun music. I'm really one of the few guys who just doesn't know jack squat about modern-day music."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
01-07-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Born Under a Blues Sign: Lurrie Bell Carries on a Family Legacynew

Lurrie Bell's nomination for a Grammy Award earlier this month was the latest confirmation of the blues inheritance that sustained his career and even saved his life. His father, Carey Bell, was nominated for his own Grammy three decades ago.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
12-29-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Chuck Snow & the Lo-Fi Cowboys Go for the Garagenew

There's a video on YouTube that captures Chuck Snow at the now-defunct Deluxe Tavern, singing the Replacements' "Unsatisfied" with his former band, the Autono. What's interesting about it is how Snow totally nails it.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
12-17-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
An American Primitive Guitarist Looks Back on a Bittersweet Journeynew

In the late '90s, Glenn Jones' band Cul de Sac recorded an album with John Fahey. As a high school student, Jones had become obsessed with the legendary guitarist after his art teacher introduced him to one of Fahey's early albums.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
12-10-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Air Apparents Zero 7 Veer Away from Their Downtempo Rootsnew

Five years after being described by Rolling Stone as "Air without irony," Zero 7's Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker are still amazed by the persistence of comparisons to the French electronica duo.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
12-03-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chill-Out, Eska, Henry Binns, Martha Tilston, Sam Hardaker, Simple Things, Yeah Ghost, Zero 7, Air
Earthless taps the spirit of classic Krautrock, Brit-blues and Japanese psych-rocknew

Mario Rubalcaba figures he's been with more than a dozen bands — he is, after all, a drummer — but that Earthless is the one he was meant for.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Samuel James Takes the Blues Storytelling Tradition into a New Eranew

"I was always a writer, you know, and my father's a fantastic storyteller. I'm sort of a culmination of his upbringing, I suppose."
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Dear Hunter's Casey Crescenzo on Life, Death and Entertainmentnew

While other kids were sneaking out to parties and listening to Limp Bizkit, Crescenzo was hanging out in his parents' home studio and immersing himself in Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and Weather Report.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-19-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Mag Seven Surf Their Way from Morricone to Monknew

It takes a special kind of band to combine surf and jazz influences and actually make it work. Factor in the limited market for either form of music, and it takes a special kind of band to even want to.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Post-Britpop Bastards in Art Brut Just Want to be Understoodnew

Eddie Argos is pretty much the last person you'd look to for sincerity. But the mastermind behind England's most archly melodic power-punk band insists we've got him all wrong.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Art Brut vs Satan, Art Brut
Blame Sally's Intriguing Songs Still Pack a Punchnew

Blame Sally's origins go back nine years, to a point when four Bay Area singer-songwriters channeled already-promising careers into one collective, harmony-drenched effort. Comparisons to classic-era Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young aren't uncommon.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Bill Forman |
11-05-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blame Sally, Night of 1000 Stars