Johnny Cash did a great cover version of "Bird". Indeed it is ! I went back and pulled out the original American Recordings from my CD collection from the 90s (who buys CDs anymore?) and had forgotten how awesome the studio recording of Bird on a Wire is. I think Beth Hart's previous album Better T...

e-town interview:
I just wanted to get his coffee for him in the studio man ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEe45D6Doh0

You are welcome Hartmut. I found it curious that she was such a huge fan of LC given that I don't see much overlap in their musical styles but perhaps that is just artificial barriers consumers of music like myself erect. Plus she is a LA native so that is another connection... I think it would be i...

Maj. Kris Kristofferson receives Veteran of the Year Award 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0khSvMpKgFA He says he was surprised to receive the award because "over the years I have managed to piss off more than a few people"... Some of his more polemic and angry compositions that do not get that...

Blues and jazz singer-songwriter Beth Hart is very complimentary of Leonard Cohen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ7vpryVHns

She speaks of LC at about 9 minutes into the interview
https://youtu.be/SZ7vpryVHns?t=542

In keeping with the Holiday Season's theme...

Love is the Way (Highwaymen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV2QutISKyA

Silent Night (Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT9JOxZLSvM

Just bought this album ---- terrific album from 2014. Just KK + guitar + an occasionally intrusive mouth organ* and 34 songs https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5109Lv6NISL._SS300.jpg *he ain't no Mickey Raphael, more like Bob Dylan ! p.s. He also sings only half the song on Pilgrim Cha...

Videos from the concert Me and Bobby McGee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5COkfKywjJA Why Me Lord https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f38gW5Jm-Hs (Willie and Kris are the remaining Highwaymen and Johnny and Waylon are represented by Rosanne Cash and Shooter Jennings) Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down https://...

Murietta's Head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL2V9Ak-FcY

Potter's Field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlCzM8wBXAk

Shenandoah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuv_x4Ipmp0

Harlan County Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSU9vIzFCzk

Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women Downey Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj2DkVG7adU Abilene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yafdB68Vok0 Blue Wing - Tom Russell & Dave Alvin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNX0hVDLlmE This is a terrific album...highly recommended ! https://images-na.ssl-images-amaz...

You are welcome. She is 76 and rocking out with her young band and young artists.....

Starwalker (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU0fS0GA6Ek

Cho Cho Fire (live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itrs_4-Ymi8

Los Pescadores
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16AydmuVX2U

Hi Diane and Tony, Tom Russell is hardly a household name here and his audiences are more a cult following similar in vein to Dave Alvin (often his partner in crime), Flatlanders etc....they work their magic in the shadows and an audience of 150 sounds just about right. Plus he does not neatly fit i...