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Review by Bokonon Photographs by Tim MackSarah Jarosz recently graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music. Those Beantown digs are close…

Review by Bokonon Photographs by Andrzej PilarczykCountry stars on the way down are much more interesting. The list of performers who have found…

Review by Bokonon Photographs by Rudy LuJust a mandolin. That’s right, just a mandolin. OK, good looks, great voice, superb sense of humor and a…

Review by Bokonon Rory Block wasn’t born with the blues, but she was raised with it. An unbelievable pantheon of greats strolled through the door of her…

By BokononIt would be hipster keen and old-school rockcrit to claim that John Zorn has a singular vision. But that’s a lie. Zorn’s vision is fractured…

Review by BokononChurch. That’s not making too big a deal of it. Church. The church of the holy jug. Jim Kweskin & the Jug Band did not invent…

Review by BokononHow hip is Hudson?Hip enough that last Wednesday evening, Club Helsinki, in August 2013, felt more like the Stiff Records office in…

Review by Bokonon“While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Nearly twelve million views and counting. Every ukulele maker in the world owes Jake Shimabukuro a…

Review by Bokonon Photographs by Martin BenjaminThe E Street Band. The Attractions. The Caledonia Soul Orchestra. These are combos talked about in…

Review by Bokonon Photographs by Tim LivingstonSlim like a knife, looking sharp, vest buttoned, guitar in hand. Alejandro Escovedo says Texas, but he…

By BokononSo, here’s little informal Nippertown survey. It’s the dawn of another year, so I’m doing some housecleaning (while listening to Billy Bragg,…

Review by Bokonon Photographs by Ed ConwayCharlie Christian. Les Paul. Jimi Hendrix. Eddie Van Halen. Sonny Landreth. The mathematical problem with…