This is JAN BURRES, early 40’s, looks to be still on the long road home from Woodstock. A little heavyset, dark wavy hair with a lot of premature grey in it. Jan moving to the side door. JAN Hi. We just barely saw you there, under that crazy hat of yours. We couldn’t back...
Nuno Bettencourt: “I told the guys, ‘I wanna go for blood on this album.’ I wanted to make it fun with the guitar... to bring joy into it, to bring passion into it” Nuno played a black shallow bodied Washburn Woodstock in the promo video for More Than Words, but not on the ...
Fall is in full swing! The leaves have started to change but are mostly still hanging onto their branches. We did go from a mild weekend to a frigid start to this work week so the signs are there but still early fall. As we ease into the frosty mornings and the haunted happenings of...
Did Steve Winwood play at Woodstock? Opener Steve Winwood played a stripped-down set that featured mostly hits from his 45-year career.He never made it to Woodstock, he told the crowd, because Traffic had briefly broken up. What band did Steve Winwood start with? Winwood burst into prominenc...
Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968, the convention of the Democratic Party in Chicago that summer, the drug-infested gathering of the nation’s youth at Woodstock, and widespread urban civil unrest. Discord within the Church followed the publication of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on ...
When she sang Joe Hill many members of the audience will have recalled her performance of the same song at the Woodstock Festival 50 years ago this summer. She was six months pregnant at the time. A glance at percussionist Gabe brought recognition that he had been there too. Yup Woodstock ...
After our walk, we went toThe WoodStock, where I’d made a reservation earlier in the day, not thinking we’d have such a late lunch after the race. While the pizzas this place served were ok, (and an effort to eat, since we were still full from lunch) the atmosphere was where ...
Then Donald Fagan bought Dylan’s house in Woodstock… Various politicians, no one took pictures, selfies or otherwise, back then. In my circle then and even sometimes now, it’s consideredgauche.Okay, tacky. Then there were times with Stevie Wonder. Once (of many) I was sitting in a ...
1, as did his next album. By 1975, he'd notched five Top 20 singles, including two more chart-topping songs. Harrison later was part of the all-star Traveling Wilburys before dying of cancer in 2001. 57: Santana Tucker Ransom, Getty Images 57: Santana Santana's Woodstock-era emergence ...
Did you forget the salt? No problem, Hinerwadels always includes a packet of salt right inside their bag of potatoes. Nice! Now, I have no doubt that these are sold in other states, particular in the south. But I have no idea what they are called or even if they are made the ...