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David Poe
My first encounter with David Poe didn\’t go so well. It was at his show in an East Village Bar in 2002. He was not in top form; I was underwhelmed, despite being a fan of his records. A few years later, we reconnected and I had quite the opposite experience. We talked about music…
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Vonda Shepard
In January of 1994, I started booking an acoustic club in Los Angeles called Genghis Cohen. Jill Sobule, Dar Williams, Ellis Paul, Martin Sexton, Shawn Mullins, and Maia Sharp all played there. Joni Mitchell did a super-secret set one night. And the Bangles all four congregated one evening for the first time in five years…
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Joan Jones
My friend Honey Harris is the morning show DJ on KBAC FM in Santa Fe. We decided that, in addition to being her ad hoc producer, I should come in every week and do a little segment. Inspired by my year-end blog post, we decided on Kelly Does Her Best wherein I introduce listeners to…
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Kelly Does Her Best… of 2008
I have the great good fortune to be buddies with a lot of incredibly talented musicians, and it just so happens that a bunch of them released pretty amazing records this year. So, here\’s my year end list of my favorite CDs from independent singer/songwriter pals of mine, not necessarily in this order because my…
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Joan Osborne: How Sweet She Is
Lyle Lovett has this song “The Girl in the Corner.” If it weren’t about Julia Roberts, it could easily be about Joan Osborne on this bright Brooklyn morning. That’s where she was sitting — in the corner of a neighborhood café reading the New York Times. Wearing a Mary J. Blige t-shirt and matching red…