The fans who filled the Robert Miller Gallery in Chelsea on Thursday night, April 2, to hear punk icon Patti Smith perform songs and original poetry inspired by the 19th century French writer Arthur Rimbaud bowed their heads as Ms. Smith intoned the literary rebel’s last words: ”I am completely paralyzed, and so I wish Read More
When the dozy, dreamy singer-songwriter Cat Power walked onstage at last week’s “The Music of Bob Dylan” benefit, she was slated to sing “Moonshiner,” a desperate folksong about desperate alcoholism. But the singer (who says she was drinking a bottle of scotch a day before she dried out earlier this year) played something else instead. Read More
When the dozy, dreamy singer-songwriter Cat Power walked onstage at last week’s “The Music of Bob Dylan” benefit, she was slated to sing “Moonshiner,” a desperate folksong about desperate alcoholism. But the singer (who says she was drinking a bottle of scotch a day before she dried out earlier this year) played something else instead. Read More
Lloyd: Lament for Little Voice
Why do so many musicians turn out to be better off in groups than they are as solo acts? Is it the right combination of drugs, or the right degree of intra-band acrimony?
Guitarist Richard Lloyd is one of those musicians. Back in the late 70′s, Mr. Lloyd found Read More
