Hear My Train a Comin’ is a must for Jimi fans… I can talk Jimi all day and so can director Bob Smeaton whose directed a handful of documentaries about the man. Here Bob talks more about him as well as Paul McCartney, Chas Chandler, and Ringo Starr.
Most of the video is from the outstanding American Masters documentary directed and produced by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders in 1998: Rock and Roll Heart: Lou Reed.
John McCauley dropped by NY1 on the release of the new Deer Tick album Negativity to talk about the record and play a couple of songs – just him and his acoustic.
The exceptional blues songstress Kirsten Thien played an unusual gig as part of the Society Cafe Concert Series at the Unitarian Church in Ridgewood, NJ.
Elvis Costello & The Roots celebrated the release of their collaborative album Wise Up Ghost with a show at the 600 person capacity Brooklyn Bowl. Audio of entire performance at WFUV.org.