Reality Check: THE POLITICS, CULTURE & SPIRIT OF SOUL James Campion July 21, 2021 Columns, Reality Check In Praise of Summer of Soul Musician and filmmaker Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson may well have made the seminal concert film of the age – the rock/soul/funk/gospel/blues American age. In his brilliantly en... Read More...
Reality Check: AUGUST 15-18, 1969 – The Woodstock Miracle & The Aging of Aquarius James Campion August 14, 2019 Columns, Reality Check The third and final installment of a three-part series on major events in our recent history which will be commemorating their fiftieth anniversary this summer. As they approached, it turns out, for me, the me... Read More...
New Reads: ‘Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur’s Farm” Sonny Wheldon August 8, 2019 Albums, Reviews Sometime around 7 a.m. on Sunday, August 17, 1969, Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane stepped to the microphone and told some 500,000 attendees in attendance at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival, “Ok, fr... Read More...
Rant’n’Roll – Back To Woodstock…49 Years Later Mike Greenblatt August 29, 2018 Columns, Rant 'N' Roll “If I could I surely would stand on the rock that Moses stood.”—Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1915 The lyrics to that old gospel song “Mary Don’t You Weep” kept running through my head. I knew it ... Read More...
