Marshall Crenshaw
Marshall Crenshaw’s “40 Years in Showbiz! (1982-2022)” At City Winery, Monday, September 26th, 2022, Reviewed
the musical equivalent of how Crenshaw at 67 years of age continues to live life as an artist
Marshall Crenshaw legally claims the US rights to the Warner Brothers recordings and has done a licensing deal with Yep Roc for the first two
the original album with a bonus EP of seven tracks from the era
Best Of 2021: Songs In Alphabetical Order by Artist Through September 30th
ask me because I know about these things
Best Of 2021: Songs In Alphabetical Order by Artist Through August 31st, 2021
to make a party takes two
Going Steady: New Single Releases 8-13-21 – 8-20-21
trying till you die makes much more sense in your sixties
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order By Artist
A good year topped by Prince
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through November 30th
very real, a week after the album dropped he was shot to death
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through October 31st, 2020
she can swing like Count Basie swings…
The 500 Greatest Songs of the 1990s – 130 to 121
That idea is in a lot of my songs
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through September 30th
everything you want from reggae by one of the greats
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through August 31st
a rock n roll Big Thief
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through July 31st
Ethiopian pop meets True Groove black rage unharnessed, is the third of the Haile Selassie trilogy
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through June 30th
bedroom pop’s coming of age
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through May 31st
instrumental last act
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through April 30th
a minimalist and ambient sound that breaks through on Pharaoh’s sax and waves of drums before quietude stills it again
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through March 31st
Jay and Jay shout out Elijah Mohammed and the big A itself,
Best Of 2020: Albums In Alphabetical Order Through January 31st
clearly as good as anything in his catalog
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 40 to 31
Crenshaw’s maturity as a songwriter came early and never wavered
The 1,000 Greatest Songs of the 1980s – 220 to 211
hopeful and optimistic against the often darker, more melancholy impulses
rock nyc’s Tenth Anniversary Celebration: Marshall Crenshaw: Will Your Heart Ever Be Satisfied?
a timelessness that should transcend fashion
In Praise of Working Musicians
There is a special pleasure in seeing a great performer in a smaller venue
Help Marshall Crenshaw Fund Documentary About Legendary Producer Tom Wilson
“I’m determined to make this happen, won’t rest until it happens!”
These Days: Friday, August 21st, 2015
We have a homeless problem because we live in a free society where we can’t simply shovel off people’s rights because they have no money. For all the ways the homeless problem is a major pain on the neck. there is one way it isn’t: it keeps us honest by forcing us to see what happens at the lowest rungs of society. Who has moved these people? Who has the right to?
Oldies But Goldies: Six years Ago I Wrote A Marshall Crenshaw Guide… Here It Goes Again
It is incredible that anybody has written so much gorgeous, smart, decent, moral, exciting, rock and roll over this length of time. Nobody else comes close. Not Dylan, Bruce… maybe James Brown. MAYBE Van Morrison. But that’s it.
Marshall Crenshaw EP “Grab The Next Train” Review
Marshall Crenshaw’s album by segments is now in its second year and sixth installment with no lessening in quality: six new songs, six covers, six live songs, six re recordings, and all about exactly what you would’ve have hoped. Much like the Easybeats cover here, “Made My Bed, Gonna Lie It”, it is youthful, quirky, superbly arranged with some great harmonies
rock nyc Top 10 Songs week of June 22nd, 2015
No, of course Kacey is not a cowgirl but it is still the best song on the album, as for Marshall, man can this man write a bridge, Foals best song followed by Algiers followed by Bully’s first song and at # 8 the saddest song of the week. The best is very very good.
Marshall Crenshaw, Kessler Theater, Dallas, Texas, Friday, March 20th, 2015 Reviewed
Simply put, he still sings very well. His guitar playing is sharp, concise, never unnecessarily flashy. Every note serves the song. And the writing? If he’s ever penned a bad tune, you couldn’t prove it by this performance. There were no low spots.
Must See: Marshall Crenshaw At City Winery, Friday, May 28th, 2015!
Unfortunately for me, I have plans tos ee Ed Sheeran when Crenshaw returns to City Winery on Friday, May 28th, 2015, otherwise I am definitely ready for another visitation… I swear, if I had another kife to live I would be the man’s publicist. No messing around, Crenshaw is one of our greatest songwriters, go see him.
Amoeba’s ‘What’s In My Bag’ With Marshall Crenshaw
Mr. Crenshaw is a music connoisseur with a taste for jazz and oldies, so he picked an early album of Sun Ra, as well as a 50’s album of the gospel soul band the Staple Singers, the new album by jazz guitarist Nels Cline, some Indian Style heavy funk, ‘SitarBeat’ and the best of Buddy Collette,… but also Mitch Ryder’s autobiography, ‘Devil and Blue Dresses’, since the Detroit-native musician feels connected to the musical legacy of the city
Amoeba’s ‘What’s In My Bag’ With Marshall Crenshaw
Last summer, singer songwriter Marshall Crenshaw visited California with The Bottle Rockets and he had the chance to haunt my favorite place in Los Angeles, Amoeba Music, for an episode ‘What’s In My Bag’, a series watching musicians hand picking a few vinyl and other things in the immense store, while commenting on their choices.
That Was The Week Of 12-2-13 That Was
An Upper Middle Class lawyer who used “terrorist” tactics to further his Anti-Apartheid cause, got nabbed, got jailed again when the racist couldn’t make it stick. Married three times. You know, a normal guy with a 27 year interruption for jail. On the plus side of the ledger, he saved South Africa from the disastrous fate of the countries surrounding him; whether that is enough to forgive him for being buddies with Bono is for others to decide.
rock nyc Top 10 Songs w-o 12-2-13
I far prefer the Extra Songs to the Next Day ones -especially this Bruce rip, and I made that for the third Crenshaw EP, it is the first time it is the covers I am loving more than the new song. The Bobby Fuller track is blowing my mind. But the week belongs to Conor Oberst and Maria Taylor’s perfect holiday album, dating from 2002.
Hear Ye: What rock nyc Is Listening To 12-5-13
I Woke Up Dreaming – Lydia Lunch – A great image though the song itself is the subterranean sound of things crashing around your ears same as it was; No New York lives, on this live album from a year ago – B