The mid-March, Monday morning sunlight brightens in the window, casting a renewing glow behind Neil Finn. The New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician is at his home in Auckland, sitting in the tastefully appointed room where he wrote many of the songs that grace Gravity Stairs, the upcoming album from his iconic pop-rock group, Crowded House. […]
photo: Andy Sapp *** “I can still remember the first time we heard a Blackberry Smoke song on the radio,” vocalist/guitar player Charlie Starr recalls. “We were on tour in a van up in Wisconsin. I took a picture, not even with a cellphone, because nobody’s phone had a camera on it back then. I […]
photo credit: Norma Touchette *** When Mike Zito’s wife, Laura, received unimaginably dire news— a cancer prognosis giving her a year to live—she turned to Zito and said, “You’ve been saying you haven’t had anything good to write about in years. Well, now you do.” He understood what she was proposing. It had been Laura, […]
