Joe Boyd is an extraordinary music man. As a producer he’s worked with a startling range of important artists from Pink Floyd, to Richard Thompson to R.E.M. and the McGarrigles. He’s a musicologist…
Australian Artists Shane Nicholson & Luluc Announced Another rich layer added to hit tribute concert. Zoë Randell from Luluc is “the female Nick Drake”. Lucinda Williams Shane Nicholson’s “high lonesome tenor is…
Growing up surrounded by gospel and soul from her musical mother and the elaborate bedtime stories of her father, Lucy Hall has a mind full of fairy tales, and a…
Jimmy Webb, songwriter of such hits as Galveston and Wichita Linesman is coming to Canberra. He took a moment to speak with Alex Sloan before his trip. His is arguably…
“The songs I wrote were about blue collar people.” Jimmy Webb has written some of the best known songs of the 20th century, he explains to Jennifer Byrne why he…
Renowned songwriter Jimmy Webb overcame his ‘diseases of the spirit’ to continue doing what he does best. JIMMY Webb was on his knees, imploring God to help him in troubled…
THERE is a trick in the arts that long pre-dates pop music: tell your audience that you’re going to deliver them something strikingly different to what came before. Joan Wasser…
SOUL | The Deep Field Joan as Police Woman | Liberator | 4 stars THE death in 1997 of her boyfriend, the great Jeff Buckley, left an indelible mark on the depthlessly…
Interview with Kathy Kathy McCabe | Daily Telegraph JOAN As Police Woman is the musical identity of Joan Wasser, an American artist who has been a fixture in alternative rock circles…