Do not take Paul McCartney's enduring gifts - natural melody, succinctly surprising lyrics, clever chord progressions, neat arrangements - for granted. Other songwriters don't. 78-year-old Sir Paul has enlisted younger admirers (Beck, St. Vincent, Blood Orange, Anderson. Paak, Josh Homme, Dominic Fike) to revise the songs from...
The title character of "The Jackson C. Frank Listening Party with Special Guests" from the New Light Theater Project is a musical footnote: As a restless artist, Frank recorded his only album in 1965 at the age of 22, which Paul Simon produced. Frank died at the age...
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