Rant ‘N’ Roll: The Koko-Mojo Diner Mike Greenblatt September 10, 2021 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll The rare pre-1963 tracks on Koko-Mojo Diner Volume #4: Rib Joint from Ireland’s Koko Mojo Records run the gamut from “You Eat Too Much” by Harold Burrage and “Fat Meat Is Good Meat” by Savannah Churchill to “... Read More...
Rant ‘N’ Roll: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Mike Greenblatt August 6, 2021 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll Since their 2015 debut, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats have morphed into one of the country’s hottest touring attractions. Nothing is off-limits for this exquisite singer-songwriter-performer, inclu... Read More...
Mike Greenblatt’s Rant ‘n’ Roll Mike Greenblatt May 15, 2020 Columns, Goings-On, Rant 'N' Roll Hank Lives In 1951, with just over a year left to live, Hank Williams hosted his own WSM 15-minute weekday radio show, many of which were from pre-recorded transcription discs on vinyl so he could stay on t... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
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... Read More...
