Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt March 26, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Every week, Mike Greenblatt dives deep into the goldmine, finding choice nuggets from every corner of the world! Trippy! Charlotte Greve hates genre-specific labels. The German singer-songwriter/alto...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt March 17, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Rescued From The Dust Bin Of Time Before Johnny O’Keefe was poisoned by barbiturates in ’78, he was Australia’s biggest rock star with 50+ singles and 100+ albums. He opens Stroll-A-Rama: Jump and Bump (Ato...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt March 10, 2020 Rant 'N' Roll All-Purpose String Wonder Woman Growing up in Woodstock, NY, Cindy Cashdollar attracted the local denizens like Levon Helm and Rick Danko of The Band, Bob Dylan (she’s on his 1997 Time Out Of Mind), blues l...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt March 3, 2020 Rant 'N' Roll Pushing The Poetry Forward For his sixth album, Cody Diekhoff, who records under the name of Chicago Farmer, dabbles in what he calls Flyover Country. Self-released, self-produced, he wrote it all too (with...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt February 24, 2020 Rant 'N' Roll Bringing Bach to Temple Israeli singer-songwriter Noa will bring her Letters To Bach to New York City’s Temple Emanu-el on March 18. Quincy Jones produced the album in which she wrote—in a series of well-cr...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt February 18, 2020 Rant 'N' Roll The Smithereens Celebrate 40 Years It was 1979 when guitarist Jim Babjak, drummer Dennis Diken, and bassist Mike Mesarus of Carteret knew they had to get a lead singer, so they put an ad in the classified s...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll–A One-On-One with Actor Artie Pasquale of The Sopranos Mike Greenblatt February 10, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll So how was Sopranos-Con at the Meadowlands Expo last November? It’s hard to describe to people. It was absolutely fabulous. I was a minor player, basically, compared to some of the heavy-hitters, but the pe...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt January 29, 2020 Rant 'N' Roll STOMP At The State It’s in-your-face loud. It’s a whirling dervish of constant hyperactivity. Between its kinetic nature and hard-working cast of dancers and percolating percussionists (non-stop banging bro...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N’ Roll Mike Greenblatt January 15, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll A Night At The Deer Head Inn Someday (Deer Head Records), by father-son team Skip and Dan Wilkins, is a love letter of sorts to the hallowed environs of Pennsylvania’s legendary Deer Head Inn. Built in the ...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘N Roll Mike Greenblatt January 8, 2020 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Ow! Leave it to the “Jazz Detective” Zev Feldman to uncover this treasure trove of hard bebopping from two masters, Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, at the height of their powers in 1962, live from...
