by Jeff Maisey | Oct 22, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
By Jim Morrison JD Souther is on the phone at his farm outside Nashville, the dogs he adores occasionally yapping in the background. He moved there after more than a decade at the dream home he built in Nichols Canyon in the Hollywood Hills, a house built by hits he...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 18, 2018 | CD Reviews, Music, Music News
Painting with Sound An Appreciation of Coming Home, the new CD by Justin Kauflin By Tom Robotham I’ll never forget the first time I saw Justin Kauflin perform. It was in 2004, at the Roper Theater in Norfolk, where he was playing with the Governors School for Arts big...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 16, 2018 | Concert Previews, Music, Music News
(Lynda Carter will perform material from her outstanding new album on October 27 at American Theatre in Hampton. Photo by Stephen Sorokoff) By Jeff Maisey Millions of Americans know her as the iconic pop culture television star of Wonder Woman. Others may...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 15, 2018 | Classical, Music, Music News
By Montague Gammon III The Franks are coming! The Franks are coming! And if (to further paraphrase George M. Cohan’s World War I song “Over There”) French drums are not “rum-tumming everywhere” in the mid-October Virginia Symphony Boléro concert, the 4,050 snare drum...
by Jeff Maisey | Oct 8, 2018 | Film, Music, Music News
By Jeff Maisey The story of Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols has been well documented; of Sid and Nancy, the exploitative management of Malcolm McLaren, the publicity stunts, the legendary shows and, of course, arguably one of the most important, and certainly most...
by Jeff Maisey | Sep 30, 2018 | Music, Music News
By Jerome Langston Like so many of his peers and musical idols, smooth jazz bassist Julian Vaughn got his musical start in church. Though initially playing drums, Julian eventually taught himself to play the bass guitar in order to ensure more music playing...
